Guests and residents of the resort town needed help twice on Saturday evening. The first call came at 19.40. According to the caller, in the Navalishchensky gorge, due to a sharp rise in the water in the Bolshaya Khosta River, tourists were cut off from the shore. They were in a narrow section of the gorge, where the water level had risen by almost a meter.
People were waiting for rescuers by climbing rocky outcrops. Emergency Ministry employees, using climbing equipment, raised safety railings and evacuated 16 people in life jackets. One of those rescued was a 12-year-old boy.
At the same time, rescuers went looking for a 43-year-old local resident who had gotten lost in the mountains. He called the rescue service and gave the coordinates of his location. According to the tourist, he cut his legs on thorns and could not find his way out of the trail.
It turned out that the man was on the slope of the Budunuko ridge, at an altitude of 600-650 meters, between the Kaisuk and Svanidze streams. While heading to this point, the rescuers met two tourists in the forest. Among them was the missing person. It turned out that the caller, having met a fellow traveler, decided to go down alone.
The phone on one of them had already died, so they lit their way with a flashlight on the second phone. Rescuers handed out flashlights to the tourists and escorted them to the village. The tourists walked into the forest in rubber shoes. They were lucky that their hike ended safely; no one needed medical attention.
In addition, rescuers were once again called to the Navalishchensky Gorge. A 30-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who jumped from a height of about seven meters into the White Rocks canyon, was injured in the back and neck. Friends helped the girl to get to the ground. Rescuers provided first aid to the victim: they fixed her cervical and lumbar spine with a Shants collar and a corset, evacuated the tourist on a stretcher to an ambulance and handed her over to doctors.
