A woman whose friends reported her missing at a ski resort was in fact stuck inside a gondola in mid-air overnight, where no one could hear her cries for help.

Monica Laso was snowboarding with friends at Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe California on Thursday when she fell behind the group, she told local news station KCRA .

She told a resort employee she was tired, and the worker guided her into a gondola cabin to take her down the hill around 5 p.m. But she said the machine stopped about two minutes later, when she was still midair.