Winter Lenin tragedy

Winter Lenin tragedy: the team summited Lenin Peak Feb 1 after spending night at 6000. They climbed via Arkin route. While descending Daniyar Mynzhysarov lost and attempts to find him did not give any results at night. Feb 2 searching raid was started at the altitude of 6500m and at
11-00 at 6200 m his body was found with a craniocereberal trauma. The group has started to descend with the dead climber. A helicopter from Almaty flew off at 12.45.

Information from www.russianclimb.com

03.02.2004