ISLAMABAD — Volunteers were able to rescue a French mountaineer from a Himalayan peak but called off efforts to retrieve a Polish climber, who was declared deceased, a Pakistani official said Sunday. Karrar Haidri, a top official in the Pakistan Alpine Federation, says the four volunteer rescuers from a separate Polish expedition were not able to reach Tomasz Mackiewicz of Poland, who was suffering from snow blindness and altitude sickness, because of poor weather. Elisabeth Revol, who has frostbite on her feet and cannot walk, was brought on Sunday from Sakrdu to Islamabad where she was admitted to Shifa International Hospital, said Haidri. A physician at the hospital said she was in stable condition and her wounds were not life threatening. Revol’s friends raised some 60,000 euros to help with the rescue operation through crowdfunding online, according to French media reports.

Source: National Post January 28, 2018 09:26 UTC