Overview
- The accident occurred Thursday near the Mirador Dos Cóndores/Cerro Norte area by El Chaltén and was made public on Saturday, according to park officials.
- Initial reports indicate he left the marked network onto a little-used path toward Cerro Dos Cóndores, and the exact cause of the fall remains under review.
- A high-mountain unit of Gendarmería Nacional and park personnel recovered the body, navigating difficult terrain before moving it to a local sanitary post.
- The remains were transferred to Hospital SAMIC in El Calafate for an autopsy ordered by the Juzgado de Instrucción Penal Juvenil N°1.
- Fresco was a Chajarí-born physician specialized in internal medicine and endocrinology who worked in Rosario, and his death prompted tributes from colleagues and his hometown.