The death of Argentinian tech CEO and founder of GranData Matias Augusto Travizano has made headlines in recent days, after Travizano took a fatal fall in a northern California mountain climbing accident.

Per a report from the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, Travizano was with two others during a successful summit of 14,162-foot Mount Shasta on September 12 with the group utilizing the Clear Creek route. Upon the group’s descent down the mountain, two of climbers, including Travizano, found themselves off trail and stranded on an ice sheet located at the northern tip of Wintun Glacier at about 13,500 feet of elevation. Upon realizing they were on the wrong route, the two attempted to glissade to a lower section of the mountain to get back on-trail, with glissading involving the use of a mountaineering axe for traction while sliding down snowy or icy slopes.

During the glissade, Travizano started to slide out of control and hit a large boulder estimated to be 300 feet below the other person he was with. This is believed to have knocked him unconscious for about five to 10 minutes, during which time the second climber attempted to reach him to render aid.

As the second climber got within about 80 feet from Travizano, he started to regain consciousness, with his movements tragically freeing him from the rock. He then slid down the rest of the glacier and out-of-sight. It was later estimated he slid about 2,000 feet down the mountainside.

The third hiker arrived moments later to assist in calling emergency services to report the accident. Travizano was found after a couple hours of searching, deceased and at an elevation of about 10,200 feet in the area of the base of the glacier.

“While the Clear Creek Route is considered one of the mountain’s “safer” trails to the summit, climbers can become disoriented in low-visibility conditions, particularly when descending from the summit plateau,” read a message from the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office following Travizano’s death. “Once off trail, these climbers often wander into more hazardous areas in the Ash Creek or Mud Creek drainages, where accidents are more likely to occur.”

GranData, the company that Travizano founded and served for as the CEO, operates in the IT services field out of San Francisco.

Condolences go out to those impacted by Travizano’s tragic death.