(KTLA) -- A 45-year-old man from Argentina plummeted some 2,000 feet to his death on Mt. Shasta earlier this month, officials have announced.

Matias Augusto Travizano reached the summit on the morning of Sept. 12 after taking the Clear Creek Route, considered one of the mountain’s safer trails, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said late last week.

It was on his descent that he and another climber, who had summited at around the same time as the 45-year-old, both lost their bearings, wandered off trail and found themselves stranded on an ice sheet at the northern tip of Wintun Glacier at an elevation of about 13,500 feet.

“Realizing that they were on the wrong route, the men attempted to glissade down to a lower section of the mountain and reenter the trail,” sheriff’s officials said

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