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A video of an Albuquerque teenager plummeting more than 45 feet from a Ski Santa Fe lift chair has gained national attention. CBS’s Charlie Rose discusses the incident in the video below.
According to an interview conducted by KOAT-TV, Dallis Meiering was riding in a chair behind a friend identified only as Jake at Ski Santa Fe, when he noticed the 17-year-old Albuquerque resident hanging 45 feet from the chairlift. Meiering grabbed his camera to document the incident. “I was telling him to just hang in there,” Meiering told KOAT-TV. Jake eventually fell more than 45 feet into the snow below. “We were all pretty shocked. We didn’t know what to do. So we sat on the chairlift and waited until we got to the top,” Meiering told KOAT-TV. Meiering said that he yelled for ski patrol to save his friend. Jake was airlifted to University of New Mexico Hospital where Meiering said he was treated for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and concussion. Meiering told KOAT-TV that Jake is back in class at Sandia High School. Ski Santa Fe issued a statement saying, “There was no malfunction with the chair. Multiple individuals said the teens on the lift had been involved in snowball throwing.” Meiering told KOAT-TV that Jake didn’t pull the safety bar on the chair lift down. See KOAT-TV’s interview with Meiering
