NARRATIVE – Stranded on a wall at an altitude of 6,000 meters and in great danger, a British woman and an American woman were rescued by three soldiers from Chamonix.
British Fay Manners and American Michelle Dvorak, two experienced mountaineers, experienced three days of anguish and an interminable wait in the Himalayas at the beginning of October. Seventy-two hours of fighting for their survival, stuck on the still unexplored northwest face of Chaukhamba III, an immense wall planted in northern India (State of Uttarakhand).
A constant struggle until deliverance when the rope team of the high mountain military group (GMHM) composed of lieutenant-colonel Jacques-Olivier, sergeant Vivien and alpine hunter Clovis, on an expedition there, came to their relief. Three members of a small elite unit counting among its ranks some of the best mountaineers in the French army who, by chance of the calendar and above all miraculous coincidence, also coveted the ascent of this virgin slope almost at the same time.
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