Quebec provincial police say the accident that killed a man and injured a woman at Mont-Tremblant’s resort village, around 105 kilometres northwest of Montreal, was caused by a drilling machine.
Sheldon Johnson, 50, was thrown out of the gondola he was in when the machine struck the lift, said the Sûreté du Québec (SQ)� in a statement. Johnson, from Kingston, Ont., was riding up the mountain with Marichu Gadong-Gleyo, one of her family members told CBC News.
Gadong-Gleyo, from Ottawa, is in critical condition in hospital, according to SQ spokesperson Éric Cadotte.
Police do not know why the drilling machine was in operation or why it was under the gondola. The
