According to British media reports on August 28, recently, a heart-wrenching final photo was exposed. The photo shows Russian climber Natalia Nagovitina trapped in a remote 24406-foot (About 7437 meters) peak, and now I am afraid he has unfortunately died.
In the photo, the 47-year-old mother of one son smiles bravely at the camera, and her broken leg is secured with a spare tent pole. At that time, people were still full of hope that she would be rescued.
Incredibly, after the photo was first published in the media, Natalia survived nearly a week with Italian climber Luca Senigallia. During that time, she endured biting winds and low temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. A week later, she was even seen waving to a drone.
However, despite her extraordinary struggle for survival, rescuers were unable to bring a helicopter that could fly to her altitude.Most of the time, the weather was too bad, but critics insisted that there were still short time windows for rescue if the aircraft and crew were ready.
So rescuers tried to climb to her position. But both attempts failed, one because of a storm and the other because the team leader was injured. Two weeks after the accident, her 27-year-old son Mikhail is still pleading to try again using drones and helicopters to rescue.
But this Wednesday, a drone equipped with a thermal imaging camera did not detect any signs of life. Unfortunately, this is the second fatality on this disastrous expedition.
Sinigalia first suffered frostbite and swollen brain. After protecting natalia and leaving her a tent, gas stove and sleeping bag, he was killed of hypothermia on the way down the mountain. At that time, rescuers said she was "in pretty good condition".
German climber Gunter Siegmund, who also suffered frostbite, successfully descended the mountain and was rushed to the hospital. He later revealed that they had spent the night together in Natalia's tent before the men tried to get off the mountain. "We decided to spend the night with her in the tent, and the situation in the tent was okay, not good, but it was okay," he said.
On their way down the mountain, they met the Russian climber Roman Mokrynski, who recalled the sudden worsening of West Nicaragua’s illness, saying, “Sinigaly was soon completely out of control, and soon afterwards he died in my arms.”
Although Senigalia was unfortunately killed, Moklinsky admitted that he was not overly worried about Natalia's safety at the time. "At the time, Natasha was definitely fine for us because we provided her with enough food and gas for a few days. Okay, this is just the first step, but I never thought,'Is she in critical condition now?'"
This 24406 feet high peak is one of the hardest to climb and most dangerous mountains on Earth and has a high mortality rate. It is the northernmost peak of the planet with an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, with extremely short climbing seasons and extremely cold weather. Climbers will experience low temperatures below 30 degrees Celsius, overwhelming snow storms, strong winds and frequent snowfall.