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American and British climbers stranded in Himalayas for three days, describe loss of gear

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Fay Manners and Michelle Dvorak, a pair of climbers, were involved in an incident on the Chaukhamba mountain in northern India. The details of the incident are as follows: they were perched at over 6,000 meters above sea level when a falling rock sliced through the rope carrying Manners' bag. This incident led to the loss of their tent and climbing equipment, which were dragged into a ravine. After issuing an SOS message, there was no further communication from the pair until Fay Manners spoke to CNN from New Delhi, stating that they are now waiting to return home.

  1. IN
    Ravindra Singh Negi
    1. We searched all day at the coordinates provided to us by the tour company but did not find anything.
  2. GB
    Fay Manners
    1. I was close to hypothermia, I think, and I was shaking so violently through the night that Michelle had to hold my legs to just try and keep me warm.
    2. We were near the end of all the difficulties … (we) maybe had one more day to get to the summit, and then we would have been the first to reach this summit.
    3. All I can really remember is just seeing the bag go down the mountain and being really shocked, thinking, 'How has this happened? Like, what's going on?'
  3. US
    Michelle Dvorak
    1. The hardest thing is we still have other equipment, and so you have to fit both your bodies and your sleeping bag on there, but you also have to fit all your other equipment. And once you've already lost a lot of your kit down the mountain, then you get pretty anxious about the rest of the kit that you have as well.
    2. We were waving around, waving our hands around and hoping to get their attention, but they were just a bit too far away, and we were on a pretty steep and vertical face, and I think everything looked a bit the same to them from their vantage point.

sources

  1. 1.CTV News
  2. 2.CNN
  3. 3.The Guardian
  4. 4.BBC

perspectives

  1. 1.Disasters
  2. 2.Missing person
  3. 3.Mountaineering

countries

  1. 1.FranceFR
  2. 2.United KingdomGB
  3. 3.IndiaIN
  4. 4.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Indian Air Force
  2. 2.National Disaster Response Force
  3. 3.Kingfisher Airlines
  4. 4.Nehru Institute of Mountaineering

persons

  1. 1.Fay MannersGB
  2. 2.Michelle DvorakUS
  3. 3.Ravindra Singh NegiIN

technicals

  1. 1.Himalayas
  2. 2.Chaukhamba