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Fay Manners, a British climber, and Michelle Dvorak, her climbing partner from the United States, were stranded on Chaukhamba mountain in northern India after the rope lifting their bags and equipment snapped, leaving them without supplies. The pair sent an emergency message when they were over 20,000ft (6,096m) high, but search and rescue teams were initially unable to find them. The women took cover on a ledge when it started snowing, sharing the only sleeping bag they had, and felt hypothermic and with no food, their bodies were running out of energy to keep warm.
“The conditions were brutal for the company to operate in. Bad weather, fog, high altitude and they couldn’t find us as the face was so vast,” Fay Manners, an alpinist, said. The next morning a helicopter came to find the pair but could not locate them. After managing to abseil down the mountain face to some melting ice, the two women managed to catch some water in their bottles. They “barely survived” the storm that afternoon and the second night in the cold with no food and only a little water. On that second morning, they began to cautiously abseil down the rock spur, aware that their weak condition could lead to mistakes and spotted a team of French climbers coming towards them, rescuers who had heard about their situation from mutual friends.
The rescuers shared their equipment, food and sleeping bags with the women and contacted the helicopter with an exact location for the rescue. In 2022, Ms Manners was the first woman to make the ascent of the Phantom Direct route on the south face of the Grand Jorasses in Mont Blanc. She has also successfully climbed peaks in Pakistan and Greenland in the past year. Ms Manners has described her ambition to inspire women to pursue an interest in alpinism and pursue mountaineering as a hobby. “We did very well to survive and retreat in the way that we did,” Ms Manning added. The duo said they planned to eat local Indian food before they could get a flight home
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