For more than two weeks the Russian mountaineer Natalia Nagovitsyna48, is caught in the POBEDA PICOthe highest peak of the Tien Shan Cordillera, in Kyrguistan, in Central Asia.
Last August 12 Nagovitsyna He suffered an accident when he descended from the 7,439 meters summit. The mountaineer fell fractured one of his legs and was immobilizedwithout the possibility of going down by their own means. Since then, the operation to rescue it was unsuccessful and that is why the authorities decided to end it.
However, her family ensures that the woman is still alive and claims to restart the search, despite the difficulties they may face.
Natalia Nagovitsyna: a broken leg and a dead mountaineer
The tragedy began after reaching Cima del Pobedaa challenge reserved only to the most experienced. Nagovitsynathe only woman in the group, she slipped and suffered a fracture in her leg when she descended. It was at first aid by expedition partners, including Italian Luca Sinigagliawho tried to stay close to her.
The man brought him basic supplies – a sleeping bag, a stove, some food – but the mountain did not give truce. On August 16, the Italian died victim of a cerebral edema, adding more pain to the operation. Your body still remains in height.
Since then, attempts to get to Natalia multiplied. It even deployed A Russian helicopter that ended up rugged in the middle of the mountain. Groups of local and foreign mountaineers risked, but the ascent route is so long and dangerous that experts warn that At least 30 rescuers would need To descend to a person injured from that height, something that was never achieved in the population.
It was for those reasons that the local government decided to terminate the rescue, so as not to risk more lives in the attempt.
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The desperate request of the Russian mountaineer son
While the Kyrgyn authorities announced the indefinite suspension of rescueNatalia’s family refuses to accept that end. Your child, Mikhail Nagovitsynhe spread a video taken by a drone on August 19, in which His mother appears on the snow and lifts an arm in greeting. “My mom is alive”, He wrote on his social networks, claiming Russia to press to resume the operation.
The young man says there is still a good weather window and that rescuers should take advantage of it before a new storm arrives. However, the head of the operation, Dmitri Grekov, was lapidary: “Since 1955, no one has been rescued in that mountain. We know where it is, but it is impossible to arrive. ”
In parallel, the voices that remember the history of tragedies in the poor Las Nieves Leopard. A dream that, according to your child, is not yet completely lost.
Source: Ambito
