US EditionRussia Orders Emergency Operation in Race to Save Mountaineer Trapped on Kyrgyzstan’s Highest Peak
Rescue efforts for Natalia Nagovitsina ended after two weeks amid extreme weather and terrain, with one rescuer dead and a helicopter crash reported, authorities said.
- Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, 48, became stranded with a broken leg on Kyrgyzstan's Victory Peak for over two weeks as rescue efforts ended.
- Nagovitsyna's accident on August 12 triggered an international rescue mission hampered by poor weather, difficult terrain, and limited helicopter capabilities.
- Multiple rescue attempts used helicopters, drones, and climbers, but a helicopter crash and the death of Italian climber Luca Sinigaglia in evacuation efforts highlighted the mission's dangers.
- On August 19, drone footage showed Nagovitsyna inside a damaged shelter, but experts have since questioned her chances of survival due to deteriorating weather conditions and limited food and water supplies, leading officials to officially end the rescue operation.
- Russia's chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin ordered urgent coordination with Kyrgyz officials on August 25 to explore comprehensive rescue options despite low survival chances and likely inability to recover her body before spring.
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Son of climber stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak with broken leg claims mum 'alive' - The Mirror
The devastated son of 47-year-old climber Natalia Nagovitsyna has urged rescuers to resume their search two weeks after his mum broke her leg at 22,000ft on Kyrgyzstan's Victory Peak
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ledauphine.comThere is now no longer any hope of helping Natalia Nagovitsyna in Kyrgyzstan. The authorities have decided to stop the rescue operation. The 48-year-old Russian mountaineer is blocked at an altitude of more than 7,000 metres on the peak of Pobeda, after a fracture of the leg that occurred on August 12.
Russia’s Top Investigator Orders Rescue of Climber in Kyrgyzstan
Russia’s chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin on Monday ordered his staff to urgently coordinate with emergency officials to rescue climber Natalia Nagovitsyna from a mountain in Kyrgyzstan after local authorities suspended search efforts amid poor weather.
The Russian mountaineer cannot be rescued from Pico Pobeda, the last 'seven thousand' she lacked to achieve the Snow Leopard distinction.
«We know where it is, but it is impossible to access». More than information, a death sentence. It sounds hard, but that categorical statement made on Sunday by Dmitri Grekov to the Russian news agency TASS confirmed the impossibility of rescuing the climber Natalia Nagovitsyna .Grekov is responsible for the base camp of the Jengish Chokusu peak (also known as Pobedy peak, its name in Russian), a mountain of 7,439 meters high located on the bord…
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