The boy had to be dramatically rescued by five teenagers after they spotted him dangling from the lift as his dad desperately clung on to him.

Nail-biting footage shows the teens spring into action with a makeshift safety net as they try to coax the boy down.

Eventually he kicks off his skis and falls safely into the netting 8m below. He was taken to hospital as a precaution but was unharmed.

The drama unfolded on Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, Canada, but it isn’t clear how the youngster was left dangling from the lift.

Gabriel Nielson, one of the teenagers who helped with the rescue mission, told Global News: “At one point, we were just like, ‘OK, you just need to trust us, you just need to drop’.

“And so then he dropped, and we caught him.”

The teenagers have now been given free season ski passes as rewards for their quick-thinking actions.

Originally published on The Sun