45 people spend night stuck in cable cars over Alps
Some 33 tourists, including a 10-year-old child, spent the night stuck in cable cars thousands of metres up among the glaciers of Mont Blanc ahead of an expected rescue operation on Friday morning, officials said.
Some 45 tourists, including a 10-year-old child, spent the night stuck in cable cars thousands of metres up among the glaciers of Mont Blanc ahead of an expected rescue operation on Friday morning, officials said.
The cable cars got stuck at 3:40pm Thursday at an altitude of 3,800 metres in the French Alps after an unexplained technical incident, initially with 110 people on board.
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