Video footage has captured a young boy falling from a chairlift at a ski field in New Zealand after he and his dad “did not have time” to pull down the safety bar.

Jack Clulee, 11, was dangling from his father’s arms about 10 metres off the ground after slipping from the chairlift at Mount Hutt on Saturday morning.

“It was pretty scary. I was just thinking to myself I didn’t want to fall because it was quite high up,” Jack told the NZ Herald.

Jack’s dad Kevin said he did not have time to pull down the chairlift’s safety bar, and his son slipped once they were travelling up the slopes.

Jack was hanging for about a minute before staff and patrons set up a safety pad for him to fall on.