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From: Gleb
Date: 15 Jun 2004
Time: 18:20:23
I still have no exact evidences from my guides. Probably they will make a report tomorrow morning. To summarize the information as it is in my mind at the moment. There were 4 people - an independent group. They made the summit and went back. 2 of them went faster and left the other 2 members behind. There is a steep slope between 5550 and 5300 (the Saddle) He slide down somewhere on the highest part and fell down for to say about 100 meters. Many people slide down in that place but in most cases it's ok because not so many rocks on the way and they just stop at the less steep part near the Saddle. He had head injury and his friend went down for help. It took several hours. There was a group from Pilgrim Tours at the base camp (the Barrels, 4000 m) and they came up. It was at about 4 am when they called me that the were coming back with dead body. In the morning they achieved the base camp and finally the body was take to Nalchick pretty fast. His friends have gone as well. His luggage is still there and the Consulate askes us to help with transportation it to them when they come to Nalchick for transporting the body to Moscow. We will do this tomorrow. At the moment I do not know if he died because of injury or because of cold. At the moment I do not know exact place but I can suppose because that is very common situation.