A-Basin Slackline Hero Gets Married In Slackline Ceremony Over Canyon
MOAB, Utah (CBS4) - The slackliner who saved a man's life on a chairlift at Arapahoe Basin got married over the weekend in his own slackline wedding.
In January, Mickey Wilson was out on a solo day at A-Basin when he saw a man dangling from his backpack on a chairlift.
Shortly after the incident, he posted about it to Instagram, saying "panic set in and we struggled in vain for about a minute to build a human pyramid to get him but the powder was too deep and we toppled over."
When it didn't work, Wilson said he "had a eureka moment."
"And I looked at the tower and I looked at the cable going down from the tower to him and I said, 'I can climb up that tower,'" said Wilson. "And I can scoot down it and get to him and make this rescue go faster."
Wilson made the incredible climb and walk, crediting his slackline training, as well as a miraculous catch as a ski patrolman threw him a knife to cut Richard free so ski patrol could administer CPR.
Because of Wilson's actions, Richard survived.
This past weekend, now, Wilson married his girlfriend, Purple McMullen-Laird, in a ceremony near Canyonlands National Park in Utah, according to the Summit Daily.
More than 100 people gathered around the rim of the Fruit Bowl canyon to witness the couple and their officiant walk out on slacklines to a net 300 feet above the canyon floor.
Following the ceremony, the couple dropped 200 feet through a whole in the center of the net, which was constructed by Purple, and swing on a rope to begin their lives together.
The couple is now on their way to Hawaii for an all-expenses paid honeymoon, which was given to them as a gift by the Ellen Degeneres Show after the rescue.
