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

Dad, 42, felt pain when he ate, which turned into back pain. He had Stage 3 pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancers. It's often found late stage. The former vice presidential nominee offered a blunt mea culpa on MSNBC.

A Montana father tragically died after falling from a chairlift when a mechanical malfunction turned a day of snowboarding into horror on the slopes — leaving his devastated wife and young son behind.