Anurag Maloo, 34, is in critical condition.
An Indian mountain climber is in critical condition after falling almost 1,000 feet down a crevasse on the world’s 10th-highest mountain and surviving there for three days.
Maloo went missing on Monday when he fell down a crevasse near Camp Three at around 19,600-foot elevation,He was subsequently found about 984 feet down the crevasse by a rescue team that included several Sherpas and Polish climber Adam Bielecki,Transport to Kathmandu was prohibited due to severe weather, so Maloo was airlifted to Pokhara’s Manipal Hospital.
“A crevasse is warmer and well protected from wind. So if he was not badly injured, it’s not unusual that he survived in a crevasse,” he noted.
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