BC Senior Dies After Falling Into Tree Well While Skiing

This undated photo shows skiers on a snowy landscape at Red Mountain in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada. Red Mountain is one of eight ski resorts along a circuit called the Powder Highway in the Kootenay region, located on the western slope of the Rockies and in the Purcell and Selkirk mountain ranges. Jeremy Hainsworth/ AP Photo

A 76-year-old man died this week after falling into a tree well while skiing at a resort in British Columbia’s southern Interior.

Trail RCMP responded to a report just after 3:30 p.m. March 5 of a man in critical condition at Red Mountain Resort just outside Rossland, located roughly 150 kilometres southeast of Kelowna.