Missing woman appears to have been stuck in a ski lift all night. No one heard her shout | Abroad

Monica Laso stayed at a resort in South Lake Tahoe, California. When she went snowboarding with her friends on Thursday, she fell behind.

She spoke to a ski area employee and told him she was tired. The man then took her to a ski lift that would take her back to the valley where she had left.

It was almost 5pm when she got into the gondola. The elevator took off, but two minutes later it suddenly stopped. She later told local news station ‘KCRA’ that she did not have her smartphone with her and that she tried to call for help, but the cable car workers did not hear her. “I screamed until I had no voice,” she said of her perilous experience.

Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain, her friends were getting worried because she wasn’t showing up. Eventually they called the police and they declared her missing.

There was no trace of her to be found. Until the ski lift was turned on again the next morning and Laso automatically arrived at the foot of the mountain. Ultimately, it turned out that she had been stuck for 15 hours in temperatures around freezing. She said she rubbed her hands and feet together all the time to stay warm.

The South Lake Tahoe Fire Department responded to the scene at 8:30 a.m., but the woman refused to go to the hospital for a check-up. There will now be an investigation into what went wrong.