Some 75 Skiers Evacuated from Damaged Sochi Cableway (rian.ru/RIA Novosti)75 people were safely evacuated from the cable cars at the Rosa Khutor resort.
The emergency services say the ski lift was shut down at 5:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT) Sunday and it took rescuers nearly two hours to evacuate all 75 stranded passengers.
The cableway works in a normal regime, a spokesman said.
Rosa Khutor is to hold several Olympic test events in the coming weeks including stages of the FIS Alpine skiing, snowboard and freestyle skiing World Cups.