Two Polish climbers die in Himalayas
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
14.10.2016 12:07
Two Polish climbers have died while scaling the Shivling peak in the Garhwal Himalayas in northern India, officials have said.
Grzegorz Kukurowski, pictured in 2009. Photo: PAP/Lech Muszyński
Grzegorz Kukurowski lost consciousness and died while camping at an altitude of 6,300 meters.
Fellow climber Łukasz Chrzanowski fell and slid several hundred meters into a crevice.
Piotr Pustelnik, president of the Polish Mountaineering Association, said Chrzanowski was still alive when a two-man rescue team reached him.
A helicopter was called out but the climber died before further help arrived.
Pustelnik said both climbers were experienced mountaineers. They were part of an eight-strong Polish expedition scaling the Shivling peak, which is over 6,500 metres high.
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Source: IAR