Friends and family gathered Tuesday to remember a surgeon who died in a fall on Mount Royal.

38-year-old Shreyas Roy was a surgeon at Sainte-Justine Hospital.

His girlfriend called 911 at 4 a.m. on Sunday and said Roy somehow lost his footing in the densely forested area, and fallen down into a ravine.

The two were up early, walking on the mountain and marking their one-year anniversary.

Friends said that Roy was a wonderful and talented man – a Renaissance man of sorts who studied a variety of subjects including chemistry, English, economics, drama and Spanish.

Dr. Michel Lallier said that Roy was a leading surgeon who specialized in gall bladder and liver transplants for infants.

"It's really difficult to talk about, and I think about his family and his future wife," said Lallier.

Roy was also a musician, playing lead guitar in the ska-punk band 'Failed States.'

Originally from Syracuse, New York, he studied medicine at McGill University, graduating in 2006, then returning to New York for his training in general surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Roy then came back to Montreal for his fellowship in pediatric surgery at Saint-Justine Hospital.

Lallier, also a surgeon, said he’d known Roy for four years. Lallier trained Roy during his fellowship and referred to him as a very good doctor who was greatly appreciated at the hospital, saying he had “good hands and judgment.”

"He played with the kids, when he's outside the hospital he played with my kids... that's why he wants to have children too,' said Lallier.

Roy was about to begin a position as an attending surgeon in pediatric hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplants.

Lallier said though it sounds cliché, the Sainte-Justine surgical team is like a family – and Roy was part of that family.

He also referred to his friend as someone who was honest and humble.

According to his obituary, “Shreyas left the world at a time in his life where he was at his best, professionally and personally, and much of this was because he and his partner Veronique had found a true and perfect love and their greatest happiness together.”

"He was just about to start a new job at the faculty at Sainte-Justine," friend Dr. Serin Murthy told CTV. "He was bringing back these novel surgical techniques. Personally he had found a companion in Veronique who he was going to spend the rest of his life with."

The obituary also referred to his love for music, his dog Umberto, cooking Bihari food, the pursuit of social justice, and adventure.

“For all who knew Shreyas, his presence, exuberance, boundless compassion, and definitive love of life radiated like a Sun,” the obituary read.

This is the first fatal accident on the mountain in at least five years.