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Spanish tourist dies after decompensation while descending from chairlift in Argentine Patagonia

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Spanish tourist dies after decompensation while descending from chairlift in Argentine Patagonia

The Argentine authorities will not intervene and will not carry out an autopsy on the body because they consider it a natural death.

General view of Los Alerces National Park, Chubut province, Patagonia region (Argentina) EFE

11/30/2024

Updated at 8:39 a.m.

A spanish tourist A 74-year-old man died last Thursday following decompensation while descending from a chairlift from one of the viewpoints of Cerro Campanario, one of the tourist spots par excellence in the Argentinian Patagonia.

Official sources confirmed that the death was due to natural death and that the Río Negro Provincial Prosecutor’s Office will not intervene or carry out an autopsy of the body, although the Provincial Prosecutor María Alejandra Bartolomé has been informed of any way, reports the Argentinian newspaper ‘La Nation’.

Cerro Campanario is located at 1,050 meters above sea level and communicates with its base thanks to this chairlift.

Another Spaniard saved

The same Thursday, another 54-year-old Spanish tourist also had to be rescued by a injury during an excursion to the Nahuel Huapi National Park, as sources from the National Parks Administration of Argentina confirmed to Infobae.

The incident occurred near the Rocca refuge, about 80 kilometers from the town of San Carlos de Bariloche.

According to information provided by the National Park Administration, the incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday, when the hiker was diagnosed with a possible ligament ruptureaccording to local news portal ‘Diario Río Negro’.


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