A group of climbers has gone missing in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The athletes stopped making contact after completing a difficult route along the Northern Ridge of Peak Kurumdy. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

According to Kaktus.media, the missing group consists of two citizens of Belarus and one citizen of Latvia.

On August 4, the climbers successfully summited and contacted the operator. They reported that they were ready to descend and were starting to move towards the base camp. However, at the appointed time, the group did not arrive at the checkpoint. After that, communication with the climbers was lost.

According to Sputnik Kyrgyzstan, rescuers managed to find the tent of the missing climbers, but their whereabouts are still unknown. The Belarusian Federation of Mountaineering and Rock Climbing has asked colleagues from Kyrgyzstan to assist in the search.

"On August 8, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations conducted searches and spent the night at an altitude of 5,000 meters. Today, 5 rescuers with special equipment, 5 Border Guard officers, and two volunteer guides who are Swiss citizens were involved in the search operation," the Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement.

The incident has once again drawn attention to the dangers of climbing in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Last year, Kursiv reported on the tragedy of Russian climber Natalya Nagovitsina. In August 2025, she was injured while climbing Peak Pobeda and spent 21 days in the "death zone" at a temperature of minus 26 degrees without food or water. She could not be saved.

Several attempts to evacuate Nagovitsina failed due to weather and extremely difficult conditions. During one of the rescue operations, a climber died. On August 25, 2025, the operation was officially terminated, and later a drone confirmed Nagovitsina's death. She remained at an altitude of about 7,200 meters, the same place where her husband, Sergei Nagovitsin, had died of a stroke several years earlier.

Her body still remains in the mountains. And the Kyrgyz authorities are still discussing the possibility of its evacuation.