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Quad lift

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Quad lift

Some chairlifts, known as quad lifts, can carry four people. These skiers are leaping off the Coronet Peak quad lift at the top of its run in 1994.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/1809/11

by Phil Reid

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Andrew Troup, Skiing – Commercial skifields, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11857/quad-lift (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Andrew Troup, published 2 March 2009.