A Rossland senior has succumbed to injuries incurred after falling into a tree well at Red Mountain Resort, district police reported March 6.
Police were called to the ski resort Tuesday, March 5, just after 3:30 p.m., after a report came into the Trail detachment that a 76-year-old Rossland man had been found in critical condition after a skiing incident.
Another skier located the unconscious man buried under the snow in a tree well while in-bounds on resort, the Trail detachment reports.
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