CHANDIGARH: Eleven tourists, 10 of them from a family in Delhi, were stranded mid-air at Timber Trail in Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh on Monday as their cable car developed a technical snag.
The visitors boarded the cable car belonging to the Timber Trail Resorts in Banasar area. They were standard midair, around 3,500 feet up the Kaushalya river flowing into a deep gorge.
Local administration and NDRF personnel joined rescue efforts. The tourists were brought down around 4 pm, five hours after they got stuck. The resort attracts a large number of tourists. The main attraction is the cable car ride from Timber Trail to Timber Heights.