Overview

• Kirgyz emergency officials suspended operations over the weekend and said expert consensus is that the climber is unlikely to have survived.
• Mikhail Nagovitsyn urged Russian agencies to restart the mission, pointing to footage that appeared to show his mother moving and to a brief forecasted weather window.
• Base-camp leader Dmitri Grekov said teams know her location near 7,150 meters but described access as impossible given the altitude and helicopter limitations.
• A Russian Mi‑8 supporting evacuations was damaged during a landing near 4,600 meters, injuring rescuers, after earlier summit pushes were thwarted by storms.
• Italian climber Luca Sinigaglia died while aiding the effort on August 15 and his body remains high on the mountain.