A visitor to Bear Mountain captured on video the harrowing rescue of a small girl after she slipped from a ski lift over the weekend.

Tito Garcia of Irwindale was in line for the ski lifts at the Big Bear resort late Saturday morning when he heard a commotion.

“People started yelling, ‘Stop the lift!’,” he said Tuesday morning. “That’s when I noticed the little girl hanging.”

With the ski lift halted, about two dozen people gather underneath the girl who was being held by a ski instructor still on the chair, preventing her from crashing to the ground about 12 feet below.

“The ski instructor riding with the child grabbed the child by her jacket, and held on for approximately one minute until the child could be dropped on to a rescue pad,” said a statement from the resort. “Big Bear Mountain Resort is thankful that Resort personnel and other guests reacted to the emergency quickly, and we are further thankful that it appears that the child was not seriously injured.”

When the instructor on the ski lift, holding the girl, let’s the child fall onto the rescue pad to cheers from the crowd, Garcia’s video shows.

Bear Mountain officials said in a statement the incident was under investigation.

“Big Bear Mountain Resort takes guest safety seriously, and will conduct a thorough investigation to determine how such incidents might be prevented from occurring in the future,” it said.