Possible Clues:

• Mountaintop access
• Life cut short in travesty of transportation
• Winter sportsmen take it up
• Kilts will fly around if one's pulled up
• Its upwardly mobile users later go downhill fast
• Pick-me-up needed for downhill runners
• One way to get to the top
• One way to the top on the mountain
• Riddle about short skirt - one can ride up here
• Device for carrying skiers up a slope