"On the 9th of March, 1976, a cable car operator at an Italian ski resort was riding in an otherwise empty gondola when he caught sight of something worrying out the window..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Background
02:08 The First Cavalese Cable Car Disaster
11:38 The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "42 Skiers Are Killed in Italy When Cable Car Falls 200 Feet" published by The New York Times, March 1976. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/10/ar...
► "March 9, 1976, the first Cermis disaster" by Silvia Morosi and Paolo Rastelli, published by Corriere della Sera, March 2018. Link: https://pochestorie.corriere.it/2018/...
► "Our colleague Alessandra Piovesana passed away on April 8th. This is how we remember her" by Manuela Stefani, published by CDR Cairo, April 2009. Available via: https://web.archive.org/web/201304012...
► "The curse of Cermis began 22 years ago" by Postiglione Venanzio, published by Corriere della Sera, February 1998. Available via: https://web.archive.org/web/201512030...

CORRECTIONS:
► In this video I say that Alpe Cermis is usually open for skiing from April to November. This is the wrong way around: I should have said November to April.

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