Overview

• EMERCOM’s helicopter evacuated the group to the Southern Regional Search-and-Rescue unit’s base in the village of Navaginka.
• The regional emergency service said no one required hospital care after the flight and all were assessed as in satisfactory condition.
• The tourists were cut off during a crossing of the Urushten River after prolonged rains triggered a sudden rise in water levels.
• The party included two children aged 10 and 13, according to the agency’s earlier statement relayed by RIA Novosti.
• The group had been traveling a mountain route associated with GLK Gazprom, including Polyana Pikhtovaya, Lager Kholodny and the Dzhuga meteorological station.