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

A 37-year-old man has died after falling from a chairlift that was having a mechanical problem at a Montana ski area. The accident happened Monday just before noon at Red Lodge Mountain southeast of Billings.

More than 100 people were on the lift at the time, and they were evacuated by ski patrollers who used ropes to lower them to the ground