– What I can say is that a 60-year-old resident of Rogaland has died in a climbing expedition in Argentina. The next of kin have been notified, says head of investigation in Sør-West police district, Morten Vestbø. The man must have taken part in a climbing expedition, and was on his way up the mountain Aconcagua, says Vestbø to VG, which first covered the case. Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the western hemisphere with a height of 6962 meters. Press officer Mathias Rongved in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms to news that a Norwegian citizen has died in Argentina. BASE CAMP: View of Berlin base camp. The last one before the summit, at an altitude of 6,000 metres. The picture is from an expedition in 2007. Photo: WALTER MORENO / AFP Argentinian media write that the man fell on the trip on Saturday, and life-saving first aid was started on the spot. But life was beyond saving. Demanding trip Jani Thorenfel Barfod is an expedition leader in Ekspedisjonsreiser and has completed the trip to Aconcagua as expedition leader for Hvitserk in 2020. She does not know the people who are on this trip now, but says it is a very demanding trip. – You go up and down for several days to establish camps, she says. The trip to Aconcagua is very popular. Most of the travel companies that operate this type of expedition in Norway have this tour, says Barfod. And in order to travel, you have to go through a medical examination in both Norway and Argentina. – When I traveled with Hvitserk, you had to go through a full medical check-up in Norway. In addition, a medical examination was carried out with a doctor in base camp, she says. One is particularly afraid of altitude sickness on such trips. – It is a mountain that is almost 7,000 meters high. The danger of altitude sickness is there. Then it’s lung and brain edema, the two people are most afraid of, says Barfod.
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