Overview
- Authorities received a satellite SOS around 6:50 p.m. Saturday with coordinates near 6,700 meters, triggering emergency protocols and staging at high camps.
- Rescue teams located the injured mountaineer mid‑morning Sunday at extreme altitude, reported between roughly 5,629 and 6,100 meters depending on the source.
- Pilot Horacio Duro Freschi hovered where landing was impossible as a rescuer disembarked to secure the victim from steep scree near the La Cueva sector.
- The climber was stabilized at Plaza de Mulas and then evacuated by helicopter to Horcones before an ambulance transfer to Hospital de Uspallata for ongoing care.
- Doctors reported cranial trauma with brief loss of consciousness, facial fractures, and third‑ to fourth‑degree frostbite on both hands after a night exposed on the mountain.