A fallen gondola car on the The two kilometre-long gondola, located off Highway 99 near the Stawamus Chief mountain, is a major tourist attraction carrying 400,000 visitors annually up a steep mountainside above Howe Sound.
The sliced cable of the Sea-to-Sky Gondola on Monday Sept. 14, 2020 Courtesy RCMP
By Dave Naylor
A fallen gondola car on the The two kilometre-long gondola, located off Highway 99 near the Stawamus Chief mountain, is a major tourist attraction carrying 400,000 visitors annually up a steep mountainside above Howe Sound.
For the second time in less than a year, criminals have cut the lines on the Sea-to-Sky Gondola sending it crashing into the ground.
Squamish RCMP say they were contacted by the security team at the gondola at 4 a.m. Monday stating that the 5.5 cm line on the gondola had been cut and had crashed into the mountain.
Dave Naylor is News Editor & Calgary Bureau Chief of the Western Standard based in the Calgary Headquarters. He served as City Editor of the Calgary Sun & covered Alberta news for nearly 40 years.
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