An Australian woman died after her backpack caught on a ski lift on a Japanese mountain and she became suspended mid-air, police said on Monday.
The 22-year-old woman was preparing to get off the lift on Friday morning at Tsugaike Mountain Resort in Hakuba Valley, a popular ski destination in the central region of Nagano.
But a loose buckle from her backpack became caught in the lift chair, according to the lift operator, Tsugaike Gondola Lift.
The woman, who had secured the rucksack with a…
Australian woman dies after getting caught in Japan ski lift
