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