Rescued French mountain climber recovering in hospital
PARIS — The French mountain climber who was rescued from a Himalayan peak where her climbing partner is presumed to have died was still recovering in a French hospital on Wednesday.
Elisabeth Revol has returned to France after she was rescued Sunday from Nanga Parbat mountain — the world’s ninth-highest peak at 8,126 metres (26,660 feet.) Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz called for help Friday.
Frederic Champly, the doctor responsible for her treatment at the Sallanches hospital near the Mont Blanc massif, said Revol has serious “grade 3 or 4 frostbites.”
Revol was brought down from the mountain by Polish climbers on a separate expedition to scale the K2 peak. The group volunteered for the rescue, braving high winds and nighttime temperatures of around minus 35 degrees Celsius ( minus 31 F) to scale the slippery mountain wall and bring her down.