The drama of the chairlift (colour litho)

The drama of the chairlift. Twenty-eight Genoese hikers climbed from Thuile (Val d'Aosta) to the Les Suches plateau, when, due to the failure of a support, the cable bent almost to touch the ground, then lightning up, shaking up. violently the seats running between pylons 16 and 18. Two travellers, Ennio Beghi and Renzo Bavoso, were thrown onto the rocks below; a third, Pellegrino Pizzocro, clung to the car seat, then dropped. The three, immediately after the accident, were transported seriously wounded to the Mauriziano hospital in Aosta. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 17 June 1956.