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California’s famous and fearsome Mt. Shasta has claimed another victim — a 45-year-old Argentinian hiker who lost track of the trail and slid around 2,000 feet down the face of a steep glacier.

Matias Augusto Travizano successfully summited the mountain on Sept. 12. But on the way back down, he veered off trail and found himself trapped alongside another hiker on an ice sheet on the northern tip of Wintun Glacier at around 13,500 feet in elevation, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

Realizing they had lost their way, the men attempted a controlled slide down the glacier to the safety of the trail below.

But Travizano lost his grip on the steep and icy surface. He s

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