chairlift
- n a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable
- Mullah Fazlullah, leader of the local Taliban chapter, used to work the chairlift.
- Imagine avoiding those chairlift queues, and stepping off your chartered chopper onto untracked powder.
- Scarcely 100 miles from the Pakistani capital, Taliban forces loyal to jihadist preacher (and former chairlift operator) Maulana Fazlullah have brutally advanced across Swat a .