The man killed and the woman seriously injured over the weekend at Quebec’s Mont Tremblant resort were from Ontario, police said Monday.
The two were ejected from a gondola climbing Mont-Tremblant when their cable car struck a drilling machine around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Quebec provincial police Sgt. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau said.
The Quebec coroner’s office identified the victim as Sheldon Johnson, 50. The second occupant, a woman in her 50s, was in critical condition in a Montreal hospital Monday.
Bilodeau said it’s still unclear why a drilling machine was operating near a moving gondola.
“There was a collision between this drill and one of the gondolas in which these two Ontarians in their 50s were occupants,” Bilodeau said. “Investigators will try to determine the circumstances surrounding this event.”…