Officials in the Central Asian country said on Saturday that after trying to save another climber, the discovery of a Russian climber trapped on the highest mountain in Kyrgyzstan has been suspended indefinitely due to the serious weather conditions.
Natalia Nagovitsia-She’s husband died on a separate mountain four years ago-climbed her foot while climbing on the summit of a win of 24,406 feet, while she was at a height of about 23,000 feet, and stuck in the mountains for about two weeks. Comparatively, Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is 29,032 feet.
A Italian climber, Luka Cinigglia, was trying to save him on 15 August.
According to the Italian Foreign Ministry, Italian rescue teams went to the spot to try to recover their body using a helicopter.
The operation launched to save Nagovitsia, which according to Russian media turned 48 on August 20, has so far failed.
According to Kyrgyz officials, a rescue helicopter crashed into the mountains and a group of climbers had to stop their climb when their leader became seriously ill.
On Saturday, “The weather conditions deteriorated rapidly, so all rescue operations have been suspended,” a spokesman for the Kyrgyz emergency situations, Adil Charginov, told the Russian news agency RIA Novoti.
A drone that flew in place of Nagovitsia confirmed that she was alive till Tuesday, Times toldBut there was no sign of life when the drone flew into the same area on Thursday.
According to a source quoted by the Russian news agency Tass, the temperature is currently hovering around -22 Fahrenheit around the -22 Fahrenheit at the summit of the Vijay Shikhar, at night.
According to Charginov, “All climbers, all experts share the idea that he is no longer alive now.”
“We know where he is. But it is impossible to reach there,” the head of Vijay Peak Base Camp, Dimitri Grakov, told Tass.
According to him, from such a height of the mountain “nobody has never been extracted”. “It is impossible to do it only by helicopter only manually, and we do not have such helicopters in Kyrgyzstan.”
Victory Peak, also known as Jengish Chokusu, is the highest mountain in the Tian Shan mountain range and is located on the China -Kirgistan border.
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Russian media reported that Natalia Nagovitsiana’s husband Sergei died in 2021, climbing the Khan Tangri (23,028 ft), the highest peak in Kazakhstan, also in Central Asia, also reported the Russian media. The daily mail Informed Nagovitsiana made headlines at that time to refuse to leave her husband on the mountain after her stroke.
Earlier this month, A Chinese climber died After the world’s second largest peak falls on K2, after being hit by rocks. In July, German climber and Olympic gold medalist, Laura DahlmierHe died while trying to climb another peak in the region.