Rescuers evacuated a tourist in Kabardino-Balkaria.

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A tourist with a shoulder injury has been evacuated from the Iryk-Chat gorge in Kabardino-Balkaria; he has been handed over to the ambulance team.

A group of tourists from the Saratov region requested assistance while in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria.

According to the press service of the republican Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the registered group of tourists asked for help because one of them was injured. They are located in the Iryk-Chat gorge at an altitude of about 2800 meters, reported Interfax on August 22.

Rescuers reached the tourists and evacuated the man with a shoulder injury. He was handed over to the ambulance team in the village of Terskol. The other group members remained in the gorge, informs RIA "Novosti".

"Caucasian Knot" reported that at the end of July, five climbers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one resident of the Krasnodar region died while climbing Elbrus. In mid-July, a 48-year-old climber from Malaysia, who was in an unregistered group with two guides, died while descending from Elbrus.

On July 10, two climbers fell into the Adyl-su gorge in Kabardino-Balkaria while climbing the Via-tau peak. One died, the other sustained multiple injuries. Prior to that, on July 7, a climber from St. Petersburg died suddenly on Elbrus.