Angela Tramonte, 31, went hiking in Arizona with a man she had met on Instagram a few weeks earlier and was meeting in person for the first time.
But he did not come down the mountain alive.
The body of the woman from Saugus, Mass., Was found Friday on the side of the Echo Canyon trail in the northeast part of Camelback Mountain, the Phoenix, Arizona, Fire Department said.
Halfway up the 2,706-foot-high peak, Tramonte told his new hiking partner that he couldn't keep climbing because of exhaustion and that he was going back to the parking lot, where they would meet again.
He continued to climb, according to the version he told the authorities.
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The temperature on the mountain that day was about 104 degrees Fahrenheit
(40 degrees Celsius).
At around 1:00 pm local time in Arizona, the man called the police because when he returned from the top he could not find Tramonte in the parking lot.
Her car and all her belongings were there, but there was no sign of her, Central Arizona reported.
Angela Tramonte, 31, who was pronounced dead on Camelback Mountain near Phoenix, Arizona.
With the help of a helicopter and 30 rescuers, the authorities managed to find her.
He had gotten off the road and was unconscious.
They tried to revive her, but she did not respond, so she was pronounced dead on the spot.
Phoenix police say
there is no suspicion the man was involved in the girl's death
.
A coroner will determine the cause of death.
When Tramonte was found, she had no water with her and authorities believe she was possibly seeking help, but was disoriented due to the dehydration she was experiencing.
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"By then, I was possibly in the early stages of heat exhaustion and heatstroke, where you become delusional, and unfortunately, your mental faculties run out of you,"
Fire Captain Ron McDade
told
The Boston Globe
.
"We want justice for our friend"
However, friends of Tramonte question the performance of the man who let her go down alone when she was not feeling well.
They indicated that the subject is a police officer and is trained in first aid.
They are now demanding that the circumstances of his death be clarified.
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“She supposedly walked back to the SOLA car up the mountain, while this man continued on his way alone.
She clearly has no respect for her safety, ”
wrote one of her friends, Melissa Buttaro, who created a GoFundMe page to raise funds for her funeral.
“There are a lot of inconsistencies in the story and facts that just don't make sense.
We just want justice for our friend, ”added Buttaro, who described her friend as a healthy person who exercised every day and always drank a lot of water.
Captain McDade said Camelback Mountain is an extremely hostile site, particularly in the summer months.
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"It's relentless, it's the word I like to use,"
McDade said of Camelback.
“This mountain doesn't care who you are, or how good a hiker or how much experience you have.
The mountain, in a situation like this, usually always wins ”, he added.
Authorities had banned Camelback hikes two weeks earlier, after several firefighters had to be hospitalized for injuries and severe dehydration while rescuing many hikers who had been seriously sunburned.
McDade stated that
it is never a good idea to separate during an excursion
: "If you start with a group, you have to end that group," he told the KPNX station.
