Experienced skier Barnaby Dunning was stuck on the chair lift in Breuil-Cervinia, Aosta Valley, Italy for 40 minutes as the terrifying ordeal was caught on camera
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Barnaby Dunning appears on "Good Morning America" on April 1, 2024. ABC News(BREUIL-CERVINIA, Italy) A skier is speaking out after surviving a terrifying chair lift ride at an Italian ski resort during high wind conditions that picked up to over 60 miles per hour.Barnaby Dunning, an experienced skier, told ABC News’ Zohreen Shah there were at least a couple of times he didn’t think he and his friend Stephanie would make it through the unsettling ordeal last Thursday in Breuil-Cervinia.“I never even knew chair lifts could rotate the way that they were rotating,” Dunning said of being violently swung around on a chair lift at Cervino Ski Paradise.Dunning said he and his friend had both noticed a major weather change while they were riding the ski lift.“This wind had kicked up and was getting quite strong. You couldn’t really see much in front of you,” Dunning recalled.Dunning said he thought the ski lift could take the two of them to safety but wind conditions