Overview
- Rescuers found the climber in a tent at Berlín/Cólera around 6,000 meters with symptoms consistent with acute mountain sickness and high‑altitude pulmonary edema.
- After treatment and a guided descent to the Nido de Cóndores medical post, a park helicopter arrived about 7:30 p.m. to transfer him to Horcones for an ambulance ride to a hospital.
- Pilot Horacio Pedro Freschi and rescuer Fabricio Corro carried out an external human‑load long‑line extraction at roughly 6,000 meters, described by authorities as the first of its kind on Aconcagua for a living person.
- Reports diverge on the patient’s identity, with some outlets naming American climber Kodali Nagendrasrinivas and others describing a Brazilian tourist without a guide.
- Through Jan. 22 the season logged 116 evacuations and two deaths, and Mendoza is billing foreign insurers via Reforsal for costly flights, including a recent $4,500 charge.