RESCUE MISSION Tourists rescued from cable car Dozens of tourists, Chamonix were rescude September 9 after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps. Their return to land ended an extraordinarily complex rescue effort over two days amid the spectacular but dangerous landscape of Western Europe's tallest mountains.
The last passengers were brought down on the morning of September 9 after emergency workers managed to untangle cables that had jammed or September 8. AP