"At 8:40 Moscow time on Saturday, information arrived that in the Elbrus region at an altitude of 5100 meters on Mount Elbrus, a mountaineer from Romania had a leg injury," RIA Novosti reports a regional MOE emergency department.

Three specialists from the Elbrus high-altitude search and rescue squad moved to the scene.

Earlier it was reported that the EMERCOM of Russia staff in Kabardino-Balkaria saved the Perm mountaineer, who had broken into the Adyr-su gorge.