“The freestyle wrestler Akhmed Zhiletezhev, who died in the Elbrus region, was a well-known promising athlete in the republic,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

On the evening of Sunday, July 24, information was received that on Mount Buka-Bashi, at an altitude of 2500 meters, a member of a tourist group of nine people, who was not registered with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, fell into the gorge.

Earlier, the director of the Fire Center group of companies, an expert on integrated security, Alexander Starostin, spoke in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper about the rules of behavior in the mountains during bad weather.