More than 60 passengers were evacuated using rope after a ski lift malfunctioned at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire Wednesday morning, officials said. Cannon Mountain, a state-run ski area in Franconia Notch State Park,

Skiers skiing under the tram at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. The Associated Press reports the Wednesday, Feb. 5 Cannon Mountain evacuation comes just four days after a chair detached and fell at a nearby resort. It took two hours to use a rope to lower 64 passengers from the Peabody Express.

More than 60 passengers were successfully evacuated from a New Hampshire ski lift after a mechanical failure that came just four days after a chair at a different resort detached and fell. Sixty-four passengers on the Peabody Express Quad at Cannon Mountain were lowered by rope over the course of about two hours on Wednesday.