A photo of a eurocopter designed to search for Nagovitsina has been published.
On Sunday, August 24, Izvestia obtained a picture of a eurocopter, which will be used to search for Natalia Nagovitsina, a Russian woman stuck at Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan.
The aircraft is currently located at the Karkir base camp. On August 25, under favorable weather conditions, he will fly out in search of Nagovitsina and evacuate the climber if she is alive.
The source of Izvestia clarified that the Airbus Helicopters H125 with tail number EX-88010 belongs to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan, however, there are no pilots in the republic with an altitude of 7 thousand m. In this regard, Italian pilots were involved, who arrived in Karkira together with employees of the Italian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Earlier that day, the tour operator Aksai travel announced that on August 25, an attempt would be made to find a Russian woman stuck on Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan using a drone, but they would not remove the body if she died that way.
The fact that 47-year-old Nagovitsina was stuck at Victory Peak was reported on August 19 in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan. She broke her leg during the descent and has been at altitude for more than a week. Vera Belikova, the administrator of the Karkyr base camp, said that Nagovitsina is a very strong and calm person. She has already had experience of climbing mountain peaks in the past, and many climbers know her.
Dmitry Grekov, the head of the mountaineering base camp, announced on August 23 that the operation to rescue the climber had been completed to date. He added that not a single person had been evacuated from Victory Peak since 1955. On the same day, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan admitted that Nagovitsina died at the Peak of Victory.
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