Ukrainian tourist feels unwell on Mt. Elbrus, evacuated by rescue team

11:26, 22.08.2015 1 min read

A rescue operation has been launched in the Mt. Elbrus area to evacuate a tourist from Ukraine who felt unwell on the Bashkara Glacier, Abdullah Guliyev, chief of the Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team, told Interfax.

"The rescue team has received a report that one of the two participants in a registered Ukrainian group felt unwell on Bashkara Glacier. Seventeen Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team members have gone to help," Guliyev said.

The tourist presumably suffered a heart attack, he said.

Non-flying weather makes it impossible to use a helicopter, and so the rescue efforts are being made on foot, he said.

"The rescuers have carried the Ukrainian tourist to a road and handed him to ambulance doctors," an officer on duty with the Elbrus Mountainous Search and Rescue Team told Interfax.