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Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active #Volcano » Explorersweb
Rescuers are still trying to reach a Brazilian tourist who fell into the crater of #Indonesia’s 3,726m Mt. Rinjani on Saturday.
Juliana Marins, 26, rose before dawn to hike around the rim of the country’s second-largest volcano with a small guided group. But in the early-morning fog, she slipped over the edge of the trail and fell down a cliff into the crater.
Drone footage captured over the previous three days shows her alive and conscious, but rescuers have been unable to reach her.
However, when rescuers descended to that point, they were unable to find her. They called out but received no response and were forced to climb back up to the rim. On Sunday, more drone footage confirmed that she was no longer in her original location.
On Monday morning, authorities found Marins again, even further down the slope. It appears that at some point on Saturday, she slid further down the cliff from where she was perched. Rescuers attempted to reach her again, but stopped a little under halfway down. They were reportedly able to send food and water down to her before retreating.
Rescuers Attempt to Save Tourist Trapped In Active Volcano » Explorersweb
The young woman fell down a cliff in the fog on Saturday. Drone footage shows that she is alive and conscious, but bad weather has impeded her rescue.Lou Bodenhemier (Explorer's Web)
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ramnath
in reply to nowisthetime • • •" She never made it alive to the fourth day.
Everyone involved made a whole bunch of mistakes:
The local guide who wasn't anywhere near her when she fell.
Whoever never advised her to take her own backpack with at least a few things in it that might have kept her alive. (She had nothing with her at all.)
(and though this can't fairly be criticized:)
Mistakes which she very probably made through her own inexperience when she was in her original safe position 1000 ft down (see the photo above).
If she'd barely moved a muscle and stayed exactly there, maybe very carefully, inch by inch, digging herself a kind of bucket seat, they'd have reached her the next day and she'd only have had to make it through one bad night.
We'll never know, but I'm guessing she panicked, tried to climb out on her own or change her position, and then fell far further, likely injuring herself badly.
There are quite a few signs that the Indonesian rescuers weren't very expert or experienced. Americans, Europeans or Russians would have got her out well within 24 hours. If I'd been i/c the rescue effort, I'd have commandeered a military sea rescue helicopter with a 2000 ft steel cable and winch, and trained operators who could pull anyone out of anything. Nothing like that ever happened.
Deaths occur in adventure sports all the time. But the very worst kind are when someone is clearly alive and yelling for help, but for one reason or another just can't be reached or helped in any way. "
clarice overhere
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