Overview

• Authorities recovered the body of Luca Sinigaglia, 49, from an ice cave around 7,000 meters after he twice tried to bring supplies to injured climber Natalia Nagovitsyna.
• Doctors cited probable cerebral edema along with exposure and hypoxia as the causes of Sinigaglia’s death on the 7,439‑meter mountain.
• Nagovitsyna, 47, fractured her leg on August 12; a drone confirmed she was alive on August 19, but later checks found no sign of life and a tent shredded by wind in −23°C conditions.
• A privately chartered Italian helicopter mission by Manuel Munari, Mario Sottile and Michele Cucchi was awaiting presidential authorization in Kyrgyzstan to depart from Bishkek.
• The Russian Mountaineering Federation called a rescue nearly impossible, noting the need for a large team and treacherous terrain, and a military helicopter previously crash‑landed, injuring four rescuers.