Mountaineer Pekova reported on the possibility of saving Nagovitsyna.

Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsina, who died at Victory Peak, could have been saved if a brave and experienced climber had gone after her. This was announced on October 26 by mountaineer Alina Pekova, who became the first Russian woman to conquer all 14 eight-thousandth peaks in the world.

"I think she could have been helped. There was a chance. The rescuers themselves do not deny this," she said in an interview with journalist Nadezhda Strelets, posted on her YouTube channel.

This operation, according to Pekova, could have been hindered by the fatigue of the climbers and the end of the season. She suggested that only a person who would be willing to risk his life for another person could get to the stranded Russian woman.

"When Natalia saw us, she started crying—she hoped she could come down."

Mountaineer Gunther Sigmund — about how his climbing colleagues tried to save Nagovitsina, and what led to the tragedy

It became known on August 19 that 47-year-old climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, who broke her leg, was stuck on Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan. The rescue operation to bring the climber down from this mountain, from where, according to Dmitry Grekov, the head of the mountaineering base camp, no one had been rescued since 1955, was completed on August 23.

On October 2, Denis Kiselyov, a rescuer and teacher at the Central School of Mountaineering Instructors, suggested that Natalia could have left a suicide note that could presumably have been blown away by the mountain wind. According to him, climbers who find themselves in a dangerous situation leave their last messages if they realize that salvation is impossible.

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