China News Service, January 19. According to the official WeChat message of the Propaganda Department of Songpan County Party Committee, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, the Songpan County Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau announced on the evening of the 18th that at 19:16 on January 14, 2024, the Songpan County Public Security Bureau 110 The command center received calls from the masses for help. Five "travelers" went to Shangnami Village in Daxing Township to climb Xuebaoding. During the process, two people lost contact and three people were trapped at an altitude of 4,800 meters.
After receiving the call for help, Songpan County Geng immediately organized the public security, emergency management, fire rescue, Sichuan Mountaineering Association, Sichuan-Tibet Mountaineering Team professional rescue team, Daxing Township government and local people to set up a joint rescue team to carry out search and rescue work.
At 16:00 on January 15, the three trapped people were rescued and brought down the mountain and properly resettled.
As of 18:40 on January 17, a total of 143 search and rescue personnel had been mobilized to carry out three rounds of search and rescue, and no trace of the two missing persons was found.
Since the search and rescue area has an altitude of about 4,800 to 5,000 meters, mostly steep cliffs, ice and snow slopes, the current weather conditions in Xuebaoding are poor. Unfavorable meteorological conditions such as snowfall and heavy fog will occur from the 16th to the 17th, and there will be strong cross winds in the mountain streams. , the temperature difference between day and night is large. To ensure the safety of the search and rescue team, the search work has been stopped.
Songpan County will continue to carry out comfort work for the families of missing persons and will search again when search conditions are met.
Preliminary investigation showed that the five "travel friends" did not make adequate preparations and scientific route selection without reporting and approval. They entered areas not open to the public and chose unconventional routes during a season that was not suitable for mountain climbing. Climbing activities are carried out without authorization on the mountaineering route.
The Songpan County Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau reminds mountaineering enthusiasts that illegal mountaineering may cause life-threatening consequences.
If you want to engage in mountaineering activities, you must strictly abide by the "Domestic Mountaineering Management Measures" and the "Sichuan Province Mountaineering Management Measures", report to the sports administrative department for filing, choose safe and mature routes for climbing, and are not allowed to enter unopened areas without authorization.
Non-professionals or those without professional guidance should not climb.