Hagens Berman Axeon team launch fundraising effort after former rider Adrien Costa has leg amputation

The young American lost his right leg below the knee after a climbing accident

Adrien Costa at the 2016 Tour of Britain (Tim De Waele/Corbis via Getty Images)

(Image credit: Corbis via Getty Images)

American team Hagens Berman Axeon have launched a fundraising page in support of their former rider Adrien Costa, after he had his right leg amputated below the knee following a climbing accident.

Costa was climbing in Mono County, California on July 29 when, as the team wrote on the fundraising page: "The incident occurred on the north ridge of Mount Conness, where Adrien was climbing at around 11,400 feet, near the base of the Conness Glacier. He was scrambling up a talus field to the base of the climbing route when a large rock, weighing around 4,000 pounds, gave way and pinned his leg against a boulder below."

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Richard Windsor