Overview

• The emergency ministry said Saturday that all operations were suspended indefinitely due to severe storms and dangerous flying conditions.
• The climber fractured her leg on August 12 near 23,000 feet on Victory (Pobeda) Peak and has remained stranded since the injury.
• A drone reportedly observed signs of life early last week, then saw no movement on a later pass, underscoring uncertainty about her condition.
• An Italian mountaineer, Luca Sinigaglia, died on August 15 during a rescue attempt, and a search helicopter later crashed during operations, authorities said.
• Officials and the base-camp leader say a manual rescue is impossible at that altitude, Kyrgyzstan lacks helicopters capable of such an evacuation, and proposals for drone-based extraction remain unconfirmed.