The search for Belarusian climber Nikolai Sviridov on Kurumdy Peak has been stopped

Brief retelling from RIA II

The search for Belarusian climber Nikolai Sviridov, who disappeared on the Kurumdy peak in Kyrgyzstan, has been stopped.

During 1.5 months of search work, drones, satellite images and analysis of snow cover were used, but the climber could not be found.

The leader of the group said that, most likely, Sviridov is located under avalanche blowouts or in cracks lower down the slope, and it is too dangerous for people to explore these places.

BISHKEK, September 16 - RIA Novosti. The search for Belarusian climber Nikolai Sviridov, who disappeared on Kurumdy Peak in Kyrgyzstan, has been stopped, said the head of the search and rescue operation, Alexander Smirnov.

“The search for Nikolai Sviridov in Kurumdy has been completed. We could not find Nikolai,” Smirnov wrote on his page on the social network Facebook* (belongs to Meta, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

According to him, during 1.5 months of search work, rescuers, climbers and volunteers used everything they could: drones capable of operating at an altitude of up to seven thousand meters, satellite images, snow cover analysis.

“Drones gave us the opportunity to see the slope almost to the stone. But if a person is under an avalanche or in a crack, he can no longer be seen from the air,” the team leader said.

Smirnov said that over the past four days the team had filmed in great detail the ridge, slopes and couloirs in the area of ​​the accident. The missing Sviridov was not found in the photographs.

“With a high probability, it is located under avalanche blowouts or in cracks lower down the slope. It is impossible to see it from the air. It is too dangerous to examine it with people. Snowfalls have now begun in the area. New snow will not melt this season. The group is finishing its work and leaving the mountain. We do not plan to resume the search,” the head of the group emphasized.

In his post, he expressed gratitude to everyone who helped in the search for the missing climbers.

“Today we stopped searching. But this does not mean that we will forget,” summed up Smirnov.

According to the website of the search headquarters, citizens of Belarus Nikolai Sviridov (Soligorsk, 60 years old), Maxim Polyansky (Minsk, 43 years old) and Lithuanian citizen Sergei Rubtsov (Vilnius, 37 years old) disappeared on the Kurumdy peak in Kyrgyzstan in early August, the last time they made contact was on August 2.

As it turned out later, they fell off the slope on the descent from the top. Through the efforts of searchers and rescuers, the bodies of Polyansky and Rubtsov were found and lowered down on August 25. They have already been buried in their homeland.