The highest peak in the Americas claimed its first victim of the year on February’s first weekend, when Moi Oystein, a 62-year-old Norweigian mountaineer suffere a fatal heart attack when less than 1.000 metres short of the summit of Aconcagua (6.962 metres). He was quickly followed by the United states. Army veteran and real estate business man John Michael Magness, 58, whose health failed him even closer to the summit. On February 8th, there was another fatality – Ayn Vincent Day, aged only 39. All three deaths were apparently cases of extreme altitude sickness. The bodies were recovered for the correspondent autopsy. Aconcagua only returned to normal mountaineering activity on January, following the coronavirus pandemic.
SOURCE: www.batimes.com.ar