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Ski resort employee dies after being injured on trail

Published  January 20, 2020 6:31pm PST
Sierra Tahoe
Associated Press

Heavenly ski patrol member dies on ski trail

The victim has been identified as 36-year-old Christopher John Nicholson of South Lake Tahoe.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - An employee of a ski resort on the California-Nevada border has died after what the resort called a “serious incident" on a trail.

Christopher John Nicholson, 36, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif. was killed on Saturday.

He was injured on the expert trail in Mott Canyon on the Nevada side of the Heavenly Mountain resort and was pronounced dead at a hospital in Carson City, Nevada.

Details of the incident were not immediately released.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the medical examiner's office in Washoe County were investigating.