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A hunt for a Russian climber stranded connected Kyrgystan's highest upland has been suspended indefinitely owed to terrible upwind conditions aft different climber died trying to rescue her, the Central Asian country's authorities said connected Saturday.
Natalia Nagovitsyna — whose hubby died connected a antithetic upland 4 years agone — broke her limb portion climbing the 24,406-foot Victory Peak portion she was astatine an altitude of astir 23,000 feet, and has been stranded successful the mountains for astir 2 weeks. By comparison, Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, is 29,032 feet.
An Italian climber, Luca Sinigaglia, died connected August 15 trying to prevention her.
Italian rescuers went to the country to effort to retrieve his assemblage utilizing a helicopter, according to the Italian overseas ministry.
The cognition launched to rescue Nagovitsyna, who turned 48 connected August 20 according to Russian media, has truthful acold been unsuccessful.
A rescue chopper crashed successful the mountains and a radical of climbers had to halt their ascent erstwhile their person becoming earnestly ill, according to Kyrgyz authorities.
On Saturday, "weather conditions deteriorated sharply, truthful each rescue operations person been suspended", the spokesperson for the Kyrgyz exigency situations ministry, Adil Chargynov, told Russian quality bureau Ria Novosti.
A drone that flew implicit Nagovitsyna's determination confirmed she was live arsenic of Tuesday, The Times reported. but determination was nary motion of beingness erstwhile the drone flew implicit the aforesaid country connected Thursday.
Temperatures are presently hovering astir -22 Fahrenheit astatine nighttime astatine the acme of Victory Peak, accompanied by gusts of upwind and snowstorms, according to a root astatine the ministry quoted by Russian quality bureau TASS.
According to Chargynov, "all climbers, each experts stock the presumption that she is unluckily nary longer alive".
"We cognize wherever she is. But it's intolerable to get there," Dmitry Grekov, caput of the Victory Peak basal camp, told TASS.
According to him, "no 1 has ever been evacuated" from specified an altitude of the mountain. "It's intolerable to bash it manually, lone by helicopter, and we don't person specified helicopters successful Kyrgyzstan."
Victory Peak, besides called Jengish Chokusu, is the highest upland successful the Tian Shan upland scope and is located connected the China–Kyrgyzstan border.
An aerial presumption taken from a commercialized level shows Tian Shan Range successful Kyrgyzstan connected April 29, 2021.
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Natalia Nagovitsyna's hubby Sergei died of a changeable successful 2021 portion climbing Khan Tengri (23,028 feet), the highest highest successful Kazakhstan, besides successful Central Asia, Russian media reported. The Daily Mail reported Nagovitsyna made headlines astatine the clip for refusing to permission her hubby connected the upland aft his stroke.
Earlier this month, a Chinese climber died aft she was deed by falling rocks connected K2, the world's second-highest peak. In July, German mountaineer and Olympic golden medalist, Laura Dahlmeier, died portion attempting to ascent different highest successful the region.
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