In Crimea, rescuers are trying to remove tourists from a cliff.
🗓 2006-05-30
In Crimea, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations are trying to remove 4 tourists from a hundred-meter cliff.
As reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, on May 13, four young people went to the mountains. We started the journey near the village of Bogatyr, planning to climb the Boyko massif, spend the night, and in the morning go down, reach the “Bath of Youth” and go down to the highway.
At the indicated time on May 14, a friend was waiting for them at the appointed place. When they didn’t show up, I started calling the mobile phones of the missing people, but they didn’t answer. On the night of May 15, they turned to the Crimean Emergency Situations Ministry for help.
As the platoon commander of the Crimean mountain search and rescue team of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Viktor Boldyr, said, 4 rescuers went out to search for people. According to Boldyr, rescuers know that mobile communications are almost completely absent in the basin and at the bottom of the canyon. Having examined the supposed route of the missing tourists and having not found anyone by 6 o’clock in the morning, a group of rescuers decided to go this route again. At the same time, 2 more rescuers and the parents of the missing went out to search for them, reports "UNIAN". The first group of rescuers was descending to the bottom of the canyon when they saw the silhouette of a girl in the distance. It turned out that the tourists followed a path that led them to almost sheer cliffs. They could neither go down nor go back up, and besides, the mountains blocked mobile communications. At the moment, a group of rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations with climbing equipment is working on the site - the found travelers need to be lifted from approximately a hundred-meter almost vertical cliff. The height of the canyon walls reaches 300 meters in some places. Boldyr believes that tourists got lost, relying on the crossings described in the map of Crimea they bought. The map, published by one of the Crimean companies together with foresters, notes that all crossings are equipped and routes are marked, which in the end turned out to be not entirely true, noted the commander of the rescue platoon. | |
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