An Indian climber is in critical condition after falling nearly 1,000 feet into a crevice on the world’s tenth highest mountain and surviving there for 3 days.
Anurag Maloo, 34, was found alive by rescuers on Thursday after going missing on Nepal’s Annapurna mountain, a representative of his family told The Post.
Maloo was lost on Monday when he fell into a crevasse near Camp Three at about 19,600 feet, reported the BBC.
He was then found about 984 feet down the crevasse by a rescue team that included several Sherpas and Polish mountaineer Adam Bielecki, told Tribune India.
Transportation to Kathmandu was prohibited because of severe weather conditions, so Maloo was airlifted to Manipal Hospital in Pokhara.
“He was taken to hospital in critical condition but remains to be alive,” his brother Sudhir Maloo told Tribune India.
Photo of Maloo within the hospital provided by Sky News shows a climber receiving chest compressions from doctors.
Prior to his rescue, Maloo’s other brother Aashish took off online petition urging the governments of India and Nepal to expand exploration efforts.
Amit Chowdhury, board member of the International Federation of Climbing and Mountaineering (UIAA), explained to the BBC that the conditions within the fissure likely helped keep Maloo alive.
“The fissure is warmer and well protected against the wind. So unless he was badly injured, it’s commonplace for him to survive in a fissure,” he noted.
On the time of his fall, Maloo was on a mission to lift awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by climbing all 14 mountains above 26,246 feet and climbing the best peaks on all seven continents.
Last yr he successfully climbed certainly one of the mountains of the eastern Himalayas in Nepal.
Annapurna, nevertheless, is taken into account a particularly dangerous hike because of avalanche-prone conditions. Renowned Irish mountaineer Noel Hanna died at Camp 4 this week, while fellow Indian mountaineer Baljeet Kaur and her companions needed to be rescued from the summit after falling in poor health.
Spring marks the start of Nepal’s mountaineering season as extreme athletes and hikers from around the globe try to overcome a few of the world’s most treacherous mountains. In keeping with Sky News, three Sherpas remain missing after falling from a fissure on Mount Everest last week.