Angara region: a climber stuck on top, they saved it a week later

In Pakistan, the week was locked at the main peak of the mountain massif Latka in the Karakoram Petersburg climber Alexander Gukov. During the descent, his partner, Irkutian Sergey Glazunov, broke and died. As a result, Gukov remained at an altitude of 6 thousand meters without food, ropes, two days ago he sat his phone. Bad weather did not allow rescuers to evacuate the athlete, but this morning the Pakistan Air Force pilots removed the Russian athlete from the cliff, Mountain.ru reports.

In the last environment, Gukov and Glazunov continued to climb into the seven thousand Latka-1 seven-thousandth according to the most difficult northern ridge. On this day, Glazunov fell asleep, and Gukov sent a SOS signal. Rescuers reported that they could not get a helicopter with a climber due to low cloud cover. However, Anna Puunova’s friend, whom he wrote from a height of 6300 meters, said that on July 25, rescuers flew too late and “missed 2 hours of good weather”.

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A year ago, the climber was already trying to climb this top, the attempt ended with the fact that his partner Valery Shamalo received inflammation and swelling of the lung, frostbite of all limbs.