Kostaki Papakonstantinou
They will be pals forever if fate permits after one seven-year-old, Kostaki Papakonstantinou, clung to the clothes of his young buddy, also seven, to keep him from falling 40 feet from a ski lift at Lakeridge Ski Resort in Uxbridge. Kostaki is being called a hero by police for tenaciously holding his friend long enough for resort staff to set up a safety net below. The boys were on a class trip at Lakeridge The boy turned in his seat to look back when he slipped off the seat and began to fall. “He slipped out of the chair lift then he got back on. Then he slipped again,” Kostaki told CTV “I was worried that he would fall on the snow and they wouldn’t be there in time,” he said. “I was holding him until they were ready and then I let him drop into (the net).” The boy fell into the net and then bounced onto the hill. The boy was airlifted to Sick Kids hospital and he’s expected to make a full recovery.
