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People trying to enjoy an Easter Sunday of skiing in the Austrian Alps ended up off the mountain after a worker and skiers reported that a man had placed a suspicious object at a cable-car station, police in the state of Vorarlberg reported on Monday. The police were called and discovered a pipe-like object about 15 centimetres long on a ski rack. They then evacuated the Kanzelwandbahn cable-car mountain station and the neighbouring Zwerenalpbahn ski lift and then closed the Kanzelwand ski area completely. Specialists arrived to defuse a potentially dangerous object, but it turned out to be a …

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