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Matias Augusto Travizano fell 2,000 feet to his death after becoming stranded while climbing back down Mount Shasta in California

The man was knocked unconscious after colliding with a boulder, and after he awoke, a fellow climber watched him slip "out of sight"

Travizano was a 45-year-old tech entrepreneur and scholar

A tech entrepreneur and scholar successfully climbed a massive California mountain. On the way back down, he plummeted to his death.

In the morning of Sept. 12, a trio of climbers reached the peak of Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, Calif., and began their descent on the mountain’s Clear Creek climbing route, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office (SCSO). On the way down, two of the three individuals accidentally wandered off the trail, and the

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