Woman dies after stifling hike with man she just met

A hiker who cut short a hike through an Arizona mountain with a man she had just met was found dead hours later amid the sweltering temperatures, according to reports.

The body of the woman, identified in reports as Angela Tramonte, 31, was discovered Friday off the Echo Canyon Trail near a house on the northeast side of Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, the Phoenix fire department said.

Rescue crews responded to the 2,706-foot peak after Tramonte “turned around halfway” on the trail and did not return to a parking lot.

A man hiking with Tramonte had called the cops about four hours earlier to report that she had turned around about halfway through their trip because she had overheated, the Arizona Republic reported.

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But the woman was not in the parking lot, where all of her belongings were still found inside a car, Phoenix Fire Captain Ron McDade told the newspaper.

Tramonte, who lived in Saugus, Massachusetts, was later found unconscious and pronounced dead despite attempts to resuscitate her, McDade said.

CBS Boston reported on Sunday that Tramonte was visiting Phoenix for the first time after meeting a man on Instagram.

This man – who works as a police officer, according to Tramonte’s friends – wanted to continue, so the couple broke up. Some friends of the woman are now questioning the circumstances of her death, according to the report.

“If someone is going up a mountain and you see them in distress and they’re not feeling well and exhausted, why don’t you come back down?” Tramonte’s friend Stacey Gerardi said. “Why would you keep going up? That does not make sense.

Gerardi said she wanted “justice” for the unexpected death of her friend just a day after arriving in Arizona.

“Not even 24 hours and she’s dead,” Gerardi said. “We want justice. We want answers. We have to keep pushing. She was my sister. We had 25 years of friendship.”

No foul play is expected in Tramonte’s death, a Phoenix Police spokesperson told the Arizona Republic. The cause of his death will be determined by a medical examiner.

Investigators said the woman did not appear to have water with her when she was found and may be trying to get help as temperatures in Phoenix hit 104 degrees on Friday, reported the Boston Globe.

“But at that time, [she] could have been in the early stages of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, where you become delusional, and unfortunately your faculties are not your concern, ”McDade told The Globe.

The woman’s companion, meanwhile, told authorities he had experience on the mountain, having hiked it “up and down” before – even during the summer months.

“It’s very ruthless, that’s the word I like to use,” McDade said of Camelback. “This mountain doesn’t care who you are, or whether you are a seasoned hiker or hiker. The mountain, in a situation like that, usually wins.”

McDade told KPNX that it’s never a good idea to go their separate ways while hiking.

“If you start in a group, you should end up in a group,” McDade told the station.

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An online fundraiser created in Tramonte’s memory said she traveled to Arizona after talking to a man online for two months.

“Halfway up the mountain, Angela told this man, who is a police officer and first responder, that she was exhausted and could not continue,” the website read. “She would have walked down the mountain ALONE to the car as this man continued alone. He clearly has no respect for her safety.”

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