19:58, 29 July 2025

Tourist evacuated after injury in Karachay-Cherkessia mountains

Emergency Ministry employees evacuated a tourist who injured his leg from the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia by helicopter. The victim was taken to a hospital in Cherkessk.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on July 28, rescuers evacuated two climbers to Nalchik who were injured in a rockfall in the Bezengi Gorge.

The victim was a member of a tourist group that was in the area of the high-mountain lake Kyafar when the man injured his leg.

An Emergency Ministry helicopter, which took off from Mineralnye Vody, was called in to evacuate the tourist. There was a medical team on board. A total of 13 employees of the rescue agency took part in the operation.

Rescuers evacuated the man from a height of 2,400 meters, the victim was taken by helicopter to Cherkessk and handed over to doctors, according to a message from the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Karachay-Cherkessia.

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