Mont-Tremblant gondola reopens one month after fatal crash

The Mont-Tremblant gondola that shut down after last month’s fatal incident reopened to the public Tuesday morning.

The resort says it carried out “exhaustive [analyses] and verifications in collaboration with the authorities and experts” in the lead-up to reopening.

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“The gondola will follow its usual operating schedule. The Grand Manitou as well as the activities and services of the summit will be open,” the resort said on its website.

Sgt. Sheldon Johnson, a 50-year-old Canadian Armed Forces member, was killed in the July 16 gondola crash. A woman, also in her 50s, was critically injured. Both were from Ontario.

The pair were thrown from the sightseeing gondola when it was struck by the mast of a drill rig that was being moved underneath, about halfway up the mountain.

Police said the machinery first struck an unoccupied gondola before it collided with a second car carrying the pair.

The gondola was immediately closed in the aftermath while a Sûreté du Québec investigation got underway. That investigation is still ongoing.

Mont-Tremblant is about 130 kilometres north of Montreal.

—With files from The Canadian Press