Teenage Hiker Found Dead on Mexico’s Third Highest Peak After Sending Video

‘It turns out that the temperature here drops to minus 2 degrees at night and well ... I’m going to freeze,’ Carrasco said in a video sent before he was found.

View of a hiker descending toward a stream formed by melting ice from the upper glacier of Izta-Popo National Park in Mexico on Oct. 28, 2014. HECTOR GUERRERO/AFP via Getty Images

Paolo Sánchez Carrasco, a 14-year-old hiking enthusiast, was found dead on the dormant Iztaccíhuatl volcano, Mexico’s third highest mountain, seven days after be was reported missing.

On July 16, the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office activated an Amber Alert to locate Carrasco, who was reported last seen on July 12 in the Romero de Terreros neighborhood of Coyoacán.