Brazilian helps with the rescue in an accident in the Himalayas – 04/21/2023 – É Logo Ali
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On April 17, Moeses Fiamoncini, from Paraná, faced his third unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Anapurna, an 8,091-meter mountain in the Himalayas considered one of the most difficult in the range, due to its constant avalanches at the most critical points of the route. 70 meters from the top, he recognized that exhaustion and common sense recommended giving up, and started back, like other climbers who also faced the dangerous descent. Between fields C3 and C2, above 5,500 meters, precisely the most dangerous stretch of the route, what no one wants to see happened —but it is more and more frequent: the Indian Anurag Maloo, who made his first climb above 8 thousand meters, he fell from a rappel, not realizing that the rope he was attached to was too short for that part of the descent.
Alerted by those below that it was the wrong rope, he didn’t have time to react and fell 8 meters, hitting the icy ground next to Fiamoncini and rolling into a crevasse approximately 300 meters deep.
“We tried to shout, alert him that the rope was too short, but he didn’t hear us and there wasn’t time for us to do anything”, said Fiamoncini, who spent two hours calling along with other climbers and Sherpas on the edge of the crevasse, without get answer. “We still tried to call the rescue by radio, but the bad weather did not allow the helicopter to reach us”, he adds. Only three days later would the rescue team manage to reach the location indicated by Fiamoncini, who photographed and filmed the area, imagining that he would find a dead body at the bottom of the frozen hole. To everyone’s surprise, Maloo was rescued alive from the cliff and was until this Friday (21) hospitalized in a coma in an Intensive Care Unit in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, where he was taken.
“The chances of him surviving, according to the doctors, are minimal, something like 2% to 3% of vital signs, even so it is a miracle, the rescue of one in a million”, lamented the mountaineer, speaking to the blog from the hotel in which he tries to cure a lung infection that accompanied him to the end of the journey, before deciding on his next steps, which, so far, have only excluded Anapurna, whose climbing window is at the end. “I just want to rest, eat, sleep and recover, and try not to think that I could have insisted and reached the summit, there was so little left…”, he says, his face still scarred by the freezing mountain sun. As a consolation, he repeats to himself that if he had insisted he might not have lived to tell about it.
Despite the traumatic experience, Fiamoncini said he had no intention of giving up on the high mountains.
“I think we risk our lives all the time, it is enough to be alive to die”, he explained. “The best example I always have is that of my mother, who woke up one day, poured water to make coffee, went to the bathroom, fell, broke a rib and punctured her lung, dying at the age of 51,” he added. “I think that every day we all take risks, we think we are safe on a daily basis, but nobody ever is, it’s an illusion, so why stop facing our dreams out of fear of death, right?”
And isn’t he right?
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