Hi @Ubaid5 ,
Thank you for sharing. Can you tell us the story behind these screenshots? What is this rescue mission? When did it happen?
Thanks!
- Nadya
Operation for rescue of Foreign Mountaineers at Nanga Parbat by Pak Army.
In response to request for rescue of two foreign mountaineers (one male one female) who are stuck in bad weather at Nanga Parbat, an operation is in progress. 2 Pakistan Army helicopters carrying 4 rescuers are undertaking rescue mission.
The request was made to Pakistan army to save the lives of these mountaineers by concerned Embassies
The Whole Story .
Day after day We’re climbing The mountain. Up and down. Up and down.
Time passes, Mountain stands, the wind is blowing away from human insects.
In our free time We watch the world, mainly the mountain one, where alike us determined ice warriors fight for the laurels … with anger, weather and its caprices.
Our interest in Nanga is obvious.
Tomek and Eli. How much can you do? We have a bit of a headache, a seventh winter attempt, who has so much determination to think like that. Try. As if the defeats did not exist, Tomek returned with the winter calendar like a boomerang under this Mountain. Like a migratory bird, interesting did not suit warm, African wintering, deserted Poland and flew to Nanga. He was digging in and kept trying. Fought.
Seventh time!!!
They left towards The summit on 15th of January. We focused on K2.
When the bad weather reached us nlowing us away from the moutain rib we anchored ourselfs in the base camp.
Access to the Internet and house arrest caused increased interest in what is happening on Nandze.
From January 15th, 10 days Elizabeth Revol and Tomek Mackiewicz are in the top attack, they have not loosened.
They started along the Messner road, far to the left of the base. They approached the top dome from day to day. When the weather broke, things got complicated.
On January 26, we got an info. The climbers are stuck somewhere at 7,400, it’s bad. Revol informs about the poor condition of Tomek.
When we sat down to breakfast, a proposal was made: we must help them. Everyone wants to go. The machine is moving, Robert Szymczak and Janusz Majer in the country. Here in Pakistan -Us. We realized that we are their only chance.
We are prepared, we have equipment, we are acclimatized. And we want, we want and we can help them. We threw ourselves into the warehouse, equipment is being prepared. Krzysztof hung on the phone. It’s so simple. You have to call the heli, pack the rescuers and after 3 hours we drive into the Nanga wall.
The clerk’s machine is starting. Race for life. We were overtaken by money at a late start. It is they, rustling papers that block the start of helicopters, are worse than the wind, inclement weather and wars, and verbal, sharp impulses run over the cables.
Poles, yes … and what about the French? Hello, the French, the money needed for the rotors of propellers, there is a Polish/French couple fighting for their lives. We want to react. We have oxygen, people, knowledge. We know the mountain, let us help you.
We are waiting. Time flies. Info comes that Revol is starting to descend.
What about Tomek?
Is he alive? The propeller starts, and sops again…chaos of information, we do not know anything.
Evening is coming. We know that tomorrow, January 27, at 8:30 am, 2 helicopters will move from Skardu, 4 rescuers, four of us will fly to Nanga. Denis, Adam. Jarek and Piotr. They will fly with oxygen, tents, equipment, they will run wearing their down suits and in harnesses, as soon as they touch the wall, they will start climbing. First two will start climbing immediately and the other two will set up a camp and prepare support …
With emotions, we lie down to sleep. And up there Revol goes down to c3 on Kinshofer’s way, she spends another difficult night in the dome, and the more difficult Tomek. Revol, sends her position. She is alive. She is indestructible.
Nothing about Tomek …
The night passes quickly.
27th welcomed us with bad weather. It blows, clouds. In Skardu at the airport is Darek, in the Polish Embassy, Mr. Wyszomirski, with telephone in The base camp- Krzysztof, in the country the whole staff. The four chosen in down suits, the sack with the equipment ready, the helipad prepared. We’re circling like vultures. I check the wind, 35 km, Darek calls, it is supposed to fly to the base with those helicopters that will fly to Nanga. There is silence in Skardu. Dozens of connections. Vulture toddlers are accelerating.
Darek calls, pilots ask what the weatheris like where we are?We turn on the video, we show that here in bc is good, the ceiling of clouds 400 m above the glacier … 10.00, 11.00. Time is flowing.
Ring, ring… Mr. Wyszomirski. There will be a flight. We fly!12 o’clock The propellers have started. We’re running towarfs the helipad, carrying all the gear bags with us. From the bottom, the whirring of engines grows over the moraine. We’re flying after them. I know, I know it. We’ll save them.
The propellers are intensified by wind, cold, hands are raking. Teeth are chattering. I look at the faces of this four. Their joy, their determination, their stubbornness. Yes, in that moment I felt proud that I was Polish. No doubts. No hesitation. We are all convinced of the rightness of the decision. The noise of the machines is quiet. They flew. Welcome Darek, who returned to the base. Twilight is slowly coming. The phone rings almost all the time: Polsat, TVN, TVP, Supeerstacja … everyone wants to know what’s going on. Internet is red hot, the wonders and wonders written in the news are impressive.
There is an information that Eli and Tomek summited. But what does it matter? We do not care. It’s … they’ve arrived. Like the wolves that were captured by prey, Denis and Adam rushed to the wall. Night falls, wind, cold, and They are climbing, one meter behind the Kuluar Kinshofer towards Eli and Tom. They’re out there somewhere, Eli knows. She descends to them, she descends! She has problems, frostbites, it is difficult to use the equipment. There is no news from Tomek. The second two rescuers break the camp at 4800, at c1.
The night falls. In the base camp we go to sleep. But the night goes by fast.
Morning.
Beauteful, windy morning.
Messages arrive…
Around 2:00 a.m. Wolfes got their pray. Eli is with them. In the Eagle Nest rescuers got to the casualty. They are on the way back down.
7:45 they start descending, down the Kinshofer wall.
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9:21 The Short one is ringing…you can not hear very well, the wind is tearing the tent. It’s good, we’re going up … do not listen … how high are you? Heli? See heli? End of connection. We are waiting… Ring Ring… phone is ringing. Piotrek, change the location of the antenna! Write SMS! Ring Ring … Two helicopters at 12.00 to C1. It goes well … silence, interrupted the connection.
Adam and Denis run down the wall with Eli … we wait in suspense when they enter the traverse? The European world is awakening. The media wake up, the phone comes alive. Again, the hunger of the news shakes the viscera of society: what is happening? Where are they? What about Tomek … Again, the propeller case, the embassy again, the airport. Pressure, speculations. You have to take them from there, take a helicopter and transport them as fast as possible. We only have one flight. Flight is dollars … whispering, questions are getting louder: where are the French? Why do we talk about money at all? Did anyone in Poland, in the base, in the Polish embassy say: and money? No! Today I have the right to say: Be proud like a Pole and be ashamed as a Frenchman. For us, it does not matter where Revol or Mackiewicz is from. It does not matter who pays. The guys rushed without thinking into Nanga ice exposing their lives … Poland sent propellers … and France?
Is it important that we initiate, pay and save? For us, no. But is Paris’s dream so strong that his own countryman’s cry did not wake him up? … The media are blocking the line, hunger is increasing. 10:05 they are on traverse. An ice slope to the other side of the kuluar, and then down … and from there go Piotr and Jarek. In four it will be easier. And what about Tomek? The weather is kneeling. 90 km at the top the rescue team goes down. And the next one will not fly. No helicopter will arrive today under K2, and all the eurozone resources from the Seine will not change. And not hypothetical
We keep waiting. I know they coming down. With every meter Eli gets more oxygen. More Abgar points to live.
10:30 phone is ringing. The French draw their wallets, 17 thousand dollars, at 12:45 at Nanga, there will land a heli with two! HAPs(Sherpa Sherpa) … maybe they will come together, maybe they will come down and heli will take Revol? France is awakening, though not official, only private, with a tricolor heart, with British support.
We are waiting. A strange thought came to me … Poles, go look, said Napoleon, and we went, so that on the way there was a gully of Samosierra, and then only gained and known, French plains.
We wait, the tents flutter in the wind. The forecast of evil, here the wind, and there the wind under Nanga, and snow is coming, i.e. visibility can prevent helicopters … We are waiting. 11/12 rings Piotr. They are in C1. With Revol. I do not know anything. I do not understand. And it does not matter. It’s great.
11:32, Mr. Zbyszek Wyszomirski calls, heli starts in 10 minutes. What a guy. Mr. Zbyszku, in hundreds of phone calls Yours was the most important. Thank you. Because whoever saves one life saves the whole world, Oscar Schindler said. They are coming back. But there is no Tomek. Czapkins falls asleep in Nanga’s embrace. I do not quite understand it. But I know that this action can not be repeated … Waiting again. Heli flies and flies. As if time slowed down, the rotors of the propellers do not hurry, and we are crazy about impatience. I want to be sure. That’s it. That they be safe.
14:27. The phone rings, Mr. Wyszomirski … everyone on the heli … safe.
How beautiful is relief.
We are waiting for you.
K2 is also waiting.
K2, for Poles.
Wow @Ubaid5 !
That was such an intense story. I am glad that there was a happy end and everyone’s safe now. It was very brave of you to try and save them.
Thanks for sharing!
- Nadya
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