The British mountaineer rescued from an unsummited Himalayan mountain said she feared she would die after being stranded in a -15C snowstorm.
Fay Manners, 37, and her American friend Michelle Dvorak, 31, lost almost all of their equipment, food and water in a rockfall on Thursday, local time, as they tried to become the first people to summit the 6995m Chaukhamba III in India.
The professional climbers were left to survive for two nights in temperatures as low as -15C in nothing but a sleeping bag and could only watch as a rescue helicopter flew by twice without spotting them.
They were found on Saturday, local time, by a team of French mountaineers who were in the area for their own attempt on the remote peak – which Manners said was a “small miracle”.
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The professional climbers were left to survive for two nights in temperatures as low as -15C in nothing but a sleeping bag and could only watch as a rescue helicopter flew by twice without spotting them.
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