Horrifying video shows desperate 12-year-old girl dangling from ski lift before plunging to the ground

A horrifying video shows a 12-year-old girl gripping a chairlift for dear life, her legs dangling in the air, before plunging to the ground.

The jaw-dropping fall happened on Saturday, Jan. 31, at Mammoth Mountain ski resort when the snowboarding teen was left unsecured on the chairlift.

Mountain staff rushed to help, setting up padding and a safety net below to catch her. The girl missed most of the net and crashed hard into the ground.

The video, posted to Facebook by a bystander who saw it, included the caption, “I wasn’t going to post this, but I know so many people who argue with me about putting the bar down. It’s mandatory in Europe, and it should be here.”

The girl’s mother commented under the post, saying her daughter thankfully hadn’t suffered any major injuries.

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“My daughter miraculously walked away with no broken bones or major injuries,” she said, adding that “there was nothing that anyone did wrong.”

She concluded that while the incident was awful, her daughter survived and will ride again when she’s ready.