abstracts 2010 - Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gebirgsmedizin

evacuated by sling operation and brought down to Col Ne, whereupon they were flown to
base camp.
To rescue the climbers still higher up the mountain (3 climbers were still missing somewhere
around camp 3) the idea was to bring well acclimatized Sherpa’s up to camp 2 by sling
operations.
Short after the first Sherpa was flown to camp 2, the rescue team heard over the radio from
base camp that nobody was in camp 3 any longer. Two Chinese mountaineers presumably lost
their way in a whiteout and felled down. One climber died at around 8000 meter after
suffering a high altitude oedema. The rescue mission was thereupon aborted.
The five wounded Chinese mountaineers were flown to hospitals in Pokhara and Kathmandu.
Some of the Sherpa’s suffered light frostbites but could be treated in base camp. The rescue
mission was carried out by both the Nepalese and Swiss crew.
Dhaulagiri, May 15 th 2010.