Two Climbers rescued after being stranded in Himalayas for 3 days
A British mountaineer and her American companion who had been stranded in the Himalayas for 3 days without food have been rescued.
Fay Manners, 37, and Michelle Dvorak, 31, had been climbing the Chaukhamba mountain in northern India, when they issued an SOS message on Thursday, with nothing further being heard from them.
The pair reported that they had lost their tent and climbing equipment after it was dragged into a ravine by a rockfall.
On Sunday (6), a spokesperson for India’s Disaster Management Agency said the 2 women had been found stranded at an altitude of about 6,000m.
He said, “Both mountaineers are safe, but look very exhausted.”
The rescue operation took 80 hours to complete and involved the Indian Air Force and Army, the Indian news agency IANS reported. (The Guardian)
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