BARTLETT, N.H. (AP) – A Massachusetts man has died after an accident at Attitash Ski Area in New Hampshire.

Attitash general manager Kent Graham says Richard Warren, of Centerville, died Saturday after an accident at the ski area in northern New Hampshire.

Graham says Warren was skiing ahead of friends when they lost sight of him on an advanced trail. The friends sought help from ski patrol members, who went up and found the 72-year-old off the trail, conscious and alert.

Graham says Warren was still conscious when he was taken to a local hospital, but died later that day.

Warren’s son, Douglas Warren, told the Cape Cod Times his father hit a patch of ice, struck a tree off the trail and died of chest injuries.

Douglas Warren said his father was wearing a helmet.

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