- A 14-year-old boy is in hospital with a broken knee after plummeting 10 metres
- He was doing pull-ups from a chairlift to impress his classmates but lost his grip
- Video footage of the incident shows the boy falling from the Jamberoo chairlift
A teenage boy has plummeted 10 metres to the ground after doing pull-ups from a moving chairlift to impress his classmates.
The 14-year-old was riding the chairlift at Jamberoo Action Park, at Kiama on the New South Wales South Coast when he started ‘mucking around’.
As cameras rolled, the boy began performing the exercise while dangling in the air but fell when the chairlift reached a pillar.
A teenage boy (pictured) has plummeted 10 metres to the ground after doing pull-ups from a moving chairlift to impress his classmates
The 14-year-old was riding the chairlift at Jamberoo Action Park, at Kiama on the New South Wales South Coast when he started ‘mucking around’ (pictured is the boy falling)
‘He pulled the safety bar up and stood up grabbing the cable,’ a person whose brother was on the chair behind told Nine News.
‘Dangling off the cable, he started to do pull-ups without realising [there was] an upcoming pillar.
‘My brother caught him hanging off the cable … before he hit the tower rollers and fell.’
As cameras rolled, the boy began performing the exercise while dangling in the air but fell when the chairlift reached a pillar (pictured)
Emergency services were called to the scene at 1:30 and the teenager was taken to Wollongong Hospital.
The boy is in a stable condition but suffered a broken knee from the fall.
Daily Mail Australia contacted Jamberoo Action Park for comment.
Emergency services were called to the scene at 1:30 and the teenager was taken to Wollongong Hospital (pictured is Jamberoo Action Park)