Climbers are rescued after three days on a mountain

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Ms Manners told the BBC the pair were “terrified” as they tried to make part of the descent alone, before being met by rescuers.
Ms Manners is an alpinist, a mountain climber who specialises in difficult climbs, and now lives in Chamonix, France.
After a loose rock cut the rope being used to haul the pair’s bags, Ms Manners said she felt “despair”.
They shared their equipment, food and sleeping bags with the women and contacted the helicopter with an exact location for rescue.
Ms Manners said: “I cried with relief knowing we might survive.

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After three days on the mountain, the climbers were rescued.

A 7-hour ago.

Orla Moore, and Rachael McMenemy.

Bedfordshire BBC News.

After surviving for two days in “brutal” conditions that endangered her life, a British climber who vanished in the Himalayas has expressed her relief.

The rope that supported Fay Manners’ food, tent, and climbing gear broke, leaving the Bedfordshire native and her American climbing partner, Michelle Dvorak, stranded on Chaukhamba Mountain in northern India with no supplies.

Search and rescue crews were first unable to locate the couple despite their emergency message being sent from above 20,000 feet (6,096 meters).

Before being rescued, the two attempted a portion of the descent alone, and Ms. Manners told the BBC that they were “terrified.”.

Ms. Manners, an alpinist—a mountain climber with a specialty in challenging climbs—now resides in Chamonix, France.

Ms. Manners said she felt “despair” after a loose rock cut the rope that was being used to haul the couple’s bags.

“I knew right away what was going to happen when I watched the bag fall down the mountain,” the woman recalled.

Our safety gear was completely depleted. Not a tent. No stove to warm water from snow. Ignore the evening’s warm attire. We are retreating back to basecamp with our crampons and ice axes.

“No head torch for moving at night. “.

A search and rescue was launched after the two managed to text emergency services.

It began to snow, so the women shared their one sleeping bag and took cover on a ledge.

“I experienced hypothermia, trembling all the time, and my body was running out of energy to stay warm due to the lack of food,” Ms. Manners stated.

The two had to spend an additional day on the mountain since a helicopter that had been sent to look for them the previous morning was unable to find them.

“They made an effort to save us, but the business couldn’t function in such harsh conditions. Because of the terrible weather, fog, high altitude, and sheer size of the face, they were unable to locate us,” she said.

The two women were able to catch some water in their bottles after successfully abseiling down the mountain face to some melting ice.

They “barely survived” the storm that afternoon, according to Ms. Manners, and the second night in the bitter cold with little water and no food.

“The helicopter passed us by once more, failing to notice us. We were completely destroyed,” she declared.

We realized that since the helicopter couldn’t save us, we would have to attempt to descend on our own. “.

Aware that their frail state could cause errors, they started their cautious abseil down the rock spur on the second morning.

Then they saw a group of French climbers approaching them; it was a rescue team that had been informed about their predicament by friends they shared.

They gave the women access to their gear, food, and sleeping bags and gave the chopper their precise location so it could be rescued.

“I wept with relief knowing we might survive,” Ms. Manners remarked.

Without our ice axes and crampons, we would not have been able to traverse the steep glacier that they helped us to.

Without the proper gear, we would have either slipped to our peril or frozen to death trying to cross the steep glaciers.

“Alternatively, is it possible that the chopper would have eventually located us?”.

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