The research of a Russian mountaineer blocked on the highest mountain of Kyrgyzstan have been suspended indefinitely due to adverse weather conditions. The authorities of the Centrale Asia were declared it on Saturday. Natalia Nagovitsyna fractured one leg during the climb of the peak victory, 7,439 meters high, while it was at an altitude of about 7,000 meters, and has been blocked in the mountains for 11 days. An Italian mountaineer, Luca Sinigaglia, died on August 15 in an attempt to save her. Italian rescuers intervened on the spot to try to recover the body using a helicopter, according to the Italian Foreign Ministry.
The operation started to save Nagovitsyna, who turned 48 on August 20 according to the Russian media, has so far not been successful. A rescue helicopter crashed into the mountains and a group of mountaineers had to stop the climb due to a serious illness of their boss, according to the Kirghise authorities. Saturday, “the weather conditions have worsened drastically, so all the rescue operations were suspended,” the spokesperson for the Ministry of Emergencies Kirghiso, Adil Chargynov, declared the spokesperson to the Russian news agency.
The night temperatures on the top of the peak of victory are currently around -30 degrees, accompanied by gusts of wind and snow storms, according to a source of the ministry mentioned by the Russian press agency Tass. According to Chargynov, “all mountaineers and all experts agree that unfortunately it is no longer alive”. “We know where it is. But it is impossible to get there, “Tass Dmitry Grekov, head of the base camp of the peak victory, told Tass. According to him, “nobody has ever been evacuated” by such an altitude of the mountain. “It is impossible to do it manually, only with the helicopter, and in Kyrgyzstan we do not have a helicopters of the genre”.
Nagovitsyna’s husband of Nagovitsyna, Sergei, died of stroke in 2021 while climbing the Khan Tengri (7,010 meters), the highest peak of Kazakhstan, always in Central Asia, according to what reported by the Russian media.