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Park visitor dies in fall from cable car
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A VISITOR at Beijing’s famous Fragrant Hills Park died after he fell from a small cable car this afternoon, the city’s emergency medical center announced.
The 59-year-old man fell more than 10 meters at around 12:26pm, witnesses said.
The exact circumstances of the incident were not yet clear – whether the man was getting aboard the car or whether it had started to move. The electric carriages are not fully enclosed and have a bench for one or two people to sit.
Doctors couldn’t detect his vital signs at the scene. But they sent him to a nearby hospital for further emergency treatment at his family’s request.
No further details have been disclosed.
Fragrant Hills, located about 20 kilometers from Beijing, is a large, forested park with the characteristics of imperial gardens in which natural landscaping is combined with artificial scenery.
Its highest peak, at 557 meters above sea level, looks like a huge incense burner, thus its name, “Incense Burner Peak” (Xiang Lu Feng). The name Fragrant Hills (Xiang Shan) is also derived from this shape.
The cable car inside the park was domestically designed and put into use in 1982.
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