Brave tourists were forced to climb out of a cable car using a rope after it got stranded high up in the air above a forest.
The tourists were admiring the vistas of the Parwanoo Timber Trail in India’s northern Shivalik mountain ranges today when the cable car got stuck.
The group were left stranded for more than an hour before police and fire teams arrived to help evacuate the cable car.
Horrifying video footage shows one of the 11 trapped people lowering himself down from the cable car using a rope.
A second cable car was later used to rescue sightseers who were unable to use the rope to get down, including children and elderly visitors.
A total of 15 people were stranded in two cable cars, with four people in the uphill trolley and 11 in the downhill trolley, after a technical problem, according to timesnownews.com.
It's understood all people have now been rescued after four hours, and it's thought most of those stranded were elderly.
Police say the situation is still being monitored and that the Airforce had been alerted.
The cable car was carrying a total of 11 tourists when it stopped mid-air, with the Timber Trail private resort staff carrying out the rescue operation, India Today reports.
It took four hours for the rescue mission to be completed, but it's thought everyone is now safe.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Jairam Thakur, told Times Now that they will be conducting an investigation into how the incident happened, adding that the rescue operation hit an issue due to the bad weather.
In a tweet, he said: "Teams from NDRF and district administration are at the spot and all the passengers will be rescued."
In April this year, three people died after tourists were stuck in cable cars in Jharkhand’s Deoghar district.
They were stuck for over 40 hours due to a technical problem.
