The search for the former top athlete continues. The conditions on site are challenging – one option is now excluded.
The rescue of former biathlete Laura Dahlmeier continues to be difficult due to the conditions on Laila Peak in the Pakistani Karakoram Mountains.
“It has been determined that a rescue by helicopter is not possible,” Areeb Ahmed Mukhtar, a senior local official in the Ghanche district, told AFP: “The conditions at the altitude where she was injured are extremely difficult.”
Meanwhile, the Pakistani medium Dawn reported that Dahlmeier was still able to communicate with her uninjured rope partner after the accident. However, this person was not able to reach the former Olympic champion.
The rope partner is said to have started the descent from the mountain on Tuesday and arrived at the base camp.
According to her management, Dahlmeier’s tragic accident occurred at an altitude of around 5700 meters. A team of foreign climbers launched a “ground rescue operation” on the mountain in the Ghanche region on Wednesday.
As Shipton Trek & Tours Pakistan, the organizer of the expedition, confirmed to AFP, the rescue team includes three Americans and a German mountaineer – according to Bild information, it is Thomas Huber.
Dahlmeier had an accident on the 6069-meter-high Laila Peak in Pakistan. As her management announced on Tuesday, the 31-year-old was at least seriously injured.
The two-time Olympic champion was hit by a rockfall on Monday. So far, no one has been able to reach her, and no signs of life were detected during a helicopter overflight.