American Climber dies on Aconcagua
An American climber died on Mount Aconcagua , the highest peak in the Americas , in the province of Mendoza Argentina .
The deceased was identified as Eric Nourse, whose death occurred on Saturday night after he was assisted by a search party. He was an Integrated climber on an expedition with his brother. David Reinhart, also an American, who was climbing separately to the same summit as the two brothers. From a height of six thousand meters, the three athletes had begun on Friday the last leg of their climb to the summit of Aconcagua, 6,959 meters, along the route of the Polish Glacier .On Saturday afternoon, the company that provided logistics services to the group warned that a family member of the Nourse brothers, had received a message from Greg´s satellite phone; in which he warned that they were in trouble.
The rescue squad found Eric Nourse in critical condition and hours later he died despite resuscitation attempts performed by the squad. As reported by today´s edition of the Los Andes newspaper in Mendoza. The climber died from pulmonary edema followed by cardiac arrest .
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