“One of the climbers from Ireland who requested help from the Ministry of Emergency Situations died. His body rescuers lowered into the clearing Azau and handed over to law enforcement agencies. The remaining five members of the group are alive, they are examined by doctors, ”said Albert Hajiyev, deputy head of the Elbrus high-altitude search and rescue team of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
According to him, four Russians who got lost on the slope of Elbrus, went down to the Azau glade.
Earlier in Kamchatka, a Japanese mountaineer was killed while climbing the Kamen volcano.