An Alberta ski lift was reopened a week after an evacuation forced 110 skiers and snowboarders to rappel to the ground from as high as 10 metres.

With a snowboard attached to one foot, and the other dangling mid-air, a snowboarder in Banff, Alta. was forced to rappel down from a broken chairlift Sunday. He was among 110 Sunshine Village visitors who had to be evacuated.

A skier at the Sunshine Village Ski Resort was airlifted to hospital after crossing a boundary rope, triggering an avalanche and falling approximately 550 metres.