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September 16, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Rescuers have not found the body of 60-year-old Belarusian climber Mika\u0142aj Sviryda\u016d, who went missing in early August after climbing Kurumdy Mountain in Kyrgyzstan near the Chinese border, Aleksandr Smirnov, who headed the rescue operation, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team is \u201cwrapping up its work and leaving the mountain\u201d after snowfall began. \u201cWe do not plan to resume the search,\u201d Smirnov said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the past month and a half, we\u2019ve used, it seems, everything we could,\u201d he noted. \u201cDrones capable of operating at altitudes of up to 7,000 meters, satellite imagery, snowpack analysis and about 100 people from six countries who reviewed the images, generated theories, tested them and reviewed them again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s highly likely that he\u2019s buried under avalanche debris or in crevasses further down the slope. It\u2019s impossible to see this from the air. Sending people to search there is too dangerous,\u201d Smirnov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bodies of the two other climbers were found in late August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sviryda\u016d and his fellow climbers, Belarusian Maksim Palanski and Lithuanian Sergejus Rubcovas, reached the summit of Kurumdy Mountain, at 6,613 meters (21,699 feet), on August 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day, they reported that they were preparing to begin their descent to base camp. Contact with the men was lost after that call, and they failed to reach a designated point on August 4, where a vehicle was waiting for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the mountain lies directly on the frontier between Kyrgyzstan and China, satellite-phone positioning failed, while cellular tracking was available only intermittently through a Chinese operator. This left rescue teams without specific coordinates and forced them to search the entire route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurumdy Mountain is situated in the Trans-Alay Range of the Pamir Mountains. Known for its extreme technical difficulty, loose rock, unstable summit cornices and isolation, it has seen very few successful ascents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteers raised \u20ac70,000 in public donations for the search and rescue operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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