Massachusetts Woman’s Family Went on a Ski Trip to Colorado for the First Time. Then She Got Lost in the Slopes
Her mom just laughed when she told her about her ordeal.
Alessa Rosario (@alessaarosario) from Massachusetts has told TikTok a shocking story involving a skiing accident, claiming that nobody in her family looked for her after she tumbled off the trail during a ski trip.
“I’m gonna tell you this story, and you’re gonna tell me if my mother is insane for laughing at me for telling her this story,” Rosario prefaced. She said the incident happened in 2022, when her family informed her they were going on a ski trip in Vail, Colorado, just a week before.
Rosario claimed that her family had never gone skiing before this trip and that they were heading there near Christmas, when the weather was bound to be frosty and the snow powdery. She was already used to the cold weather in her home state, but Rosario said that she was freezing in the mountains.
When the day of their trip came, Rosario asked her mother when the skiing lessons were scheduled. Her mother supposedly said, “What lessons?” From that response, it became clear that her family planned to ski without an instructor. She would have to learn as she went down the slope, and Rosario said the notion triggered “horror movie music” in her head.
Going up to ski without lessons
“You must be an Olympic skier then, because that’s the only way that makes sense. Like, you’re putting my life in danger, woman,” Rosario thought, recalling her mother’s actions. She then told her parents that she didn’t want to go up the slopes but was supposedly given the option to only stay indoors at the hotel. Eventually, she reluctantly agreed to go up the slopes with her parents.
“If you told me this was Mount Everest, I would have believed you,” she quipped. Rosario said that her family struggled to acclimate to their skiing gear. Her mother, whom she jokingly called the “Olympic skier,” said she struggled to walk with her skiskates. Rosario felt competitive, and she wanted to be the first to get down from the mountain. It was just around 2:30 in the afternoon, and the sun was high in the sky.
“I waved to my family, for what could’ve possibly been the last time,” she said, telling them she’d meet them later at the bottom. When she descended, Rosario said she was having fun. She felt the winter breeze as her eyes gazed upon the stunning views of Vail Mountain.
“And then I just keep gaining speed, and it hits me: I don’t know how to brake,” Rosario revealed. She was a first-time skier. Physical activities can cause injury. Even this woman who was doing Pilates had a hilarious mishap with her resistance band at the gym. But Rosario’s case isn’t a laughing matter, as she was new to the sport and on an unfamiliar mountain. A bad fall could bury her in the snow. Rosario decided to fall on purpose to slow herself down. She tossed her body sideways onto the snow repeatedly until she found somebody who could teach her.
Rosario claimed that she could no longer see people around her at this point. She started wondering where her family was because nobody followed her but decided to keep going down, braking by falling sideways, until she saw a man walking ahead.
She called for him, and the man taught her how to brake with her ski poles and to “pizza” her skis. Just when Rosario thought it would be easy, she fell. She sank in the snow with her legs twisted like a pretzel.
“I genuinely thought I was going to die,” Rosario said. But she eventually freed herself from the snow and moved forward. She said at this point, it was already around six in the evening. Rosario had been missing for five hours. Not knowing what to do next, she started taking photos of the scenery while lamenting the idea that a mountain lion might eat her.
Divine intervention came in the form of a Brazilian couple
“God is a Brazilian couple,” she said. A Brazilian couple who planned to head down the mountain approached her, asking if she needed help. The man explained his girlfriend was struggling and that there was an emergency sled waiting to rescue them. At first, Rosario was apprehensive but decided to join them.
All three of the skiers successfully got down the slopes with the emergency sled. Then, Rosario said she saw her family enjoying hot cocoa at the bottom of the mountain. When she asked them how they got down first, they said that they chose not to ski. Instead, they used a sled to get down.
“I know I’m alive, and I made it, but I could’ve not,” Rosario stated. She alleged her mother merely laughed when she told her about her five-hour struggle on Vail Mountain.
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