KAHMANDU, OCTOBER 15
A climber from Denmark has been stranded at the high camp of Mt Ama Dablam after he suffered from snow blindness and high-altitude sickness this morning.
Rajendra Lama, Managing Director at Friends Adventure, said that Brian Harring Boll, 53, fell ill and couldn't move when he descended from the summit point. Brian along with Dhana Tamang reached the summit point at around 7:30am this morning.
"Brian suffered from high altitude sickness followed by snow blindness, at the mushroom ridge, in between camp II and III while descending from the summit point," Lama said, adding that multiple efforts to arrange an aerial evacuation mission went in vein as the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal refused to release high altitude pilots for today's mission citing a mandatory limited flying hours rule for a day.
"It will take several hours to send a ground search mission as his condition is very critical," Lama said, adding that CAAN repeatedly turned down a request to release at least one captain for mountain rescue this afternoon.
"We will try to pick him up through a long line rescue flight tomorrow morning," he added.
