A rescue operation has been launched in the Mt. Elbrus area to evacuate a tourist from Ukraine who felt unwell on the Bashkara Glacier, Abdullah Guliyev, chief of the Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team, told Interfax.
‘The rescue team has received a report that one of the two participants in a registered Ukrainian group felt unwell on Bashkara Glacier. Seventeen Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team members have gone to help,’ Guliyev said.
The tourist presumably suffered a heart attack, he said.Non-flying weather makes it impossible to use a helicopter, and so the rescue efforts are being made on foot, he said.
‘The rescuers have carried the Ukrainian tourist to a road and handed him to ambulance doctors,’ an officer on duty with the Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team told Interfax.
