A 45-year-old mountain climber died after falling roughly 2,000 feet off Mt. Shasta, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Matias Augusto Travizano of San Francisco and Argentina was descending the Wintun Glacier, part of the Clear Creek climbing route, before 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 12 when eyewitnesses reported he fell and “disappeared” into the wilderness landscape, according to an announcement issued Thursday evening by Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue.

Travizano was an engineer and entrepreneur, and the former CEO of GranData with ties to Argentina's President Javier Milei's 2024 visit to the Silicon Valley , according to Argentine newspaper La Nación .

Travizano and two other unnamed climbers had successfully summited Mt. Shasta that morning. While hiking back down the mountain, tw

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