“At 21:00, under the Mir station, at an altitude of 3,500 meters, they found the body of a man without signs of life, allegedly a skier from Moscow,” the report says.
Information about the emergency came to rescuers in the evening from the spouse vacationer. According to her, in the morning he went skiing on Elbrus and since then has not contacted.
Specialists started transporting the body down for the transfer of an interdepartmental investigative-operational group, informed the department.
Earlier it was reported that the Emergencies Ministry staff rescued skiers from the Moscow region who got lost on Elbrus.