WTF Is Happening With North America's Ski Lifts?

The 2024-25 season seems to have had an abnormally high number of catastrophic ski lift accidents in North America. So what's really going on?

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0:00 Intro
0:45 Montana Snowbowl Chair Detachment
2:35 Winter Park Gondola Failure
3:55 Heavenly Comet Express Chair Collision
5:43 Sun Valley Lookout Express Bail Failure
6:47 Mission Ridge Chair 4 Detachment
8:22 Attitash Flying Bear Grip Failure
10:04 Mount Bohemia Double Chair Detachment
10:41 Mission Ridge Chair 4 Detachment (Again)
11:43 Kicking Horse Gondola Detachment
14:08 Red Lodge Chairlift Ejection
15:12 Has the 2024-25 Season Been A Lift Safety Outlier?
16:40 F