A snowboarder at a southern Montana ski resort was killed Monday after falling from a chair lift, according to a social media post from the ski resort where it happened. “Yesterday was an unfortunate day at Red Lodge Mountain as a guest was injured as the result of a chair lift incident,

Jeff Zinne, a 37-year-old father, died after falling from the chairlift at the Red Lodge Mountain ski resort in Montana. It was determined that the equipment had suffered a mechanical failure. The post Father dies at ski resort in Montana after gondola failure appeared first on Trânsito e metrô.

Jeff Zinne was riding alone in a three-person lift when a mechanical issues caused him to fall onto the slopes below.

Red Lodge Mountain officials report they are working with officials to investigate how the chairlift incident occurred on Monday.They say Triple Chair, an indep

Jeffrey Zinne, 37, was riding alone in a three-person chair that carries skiers up the mountain when he fell from an unspecified height.

LiftBlog has confirmed that the Triple Chair does not have a safety restraint bar. The chair was built in 1983 and will remain closed while under investigation following the accident. The ski area's old Miami Beach Chair (as seen in the featured image above) did not have a safety bar either.

A man has died a day after falling from a chairlift that was having a mechanical problem in a Montana ski area. The accident happened just before noon on Monday at Red Lodge Mountain, southeast of Billings in the Beartooth Mountains.

A skier was airlifted to the hospital after an "unfortunate incident" on a chairlift at Red Lodge Mountain. On Monday, March 10th, Red Lodge Mountain Patrol received a call around 11:51 a.m. of an accident on Triple Chair.