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\u201cWe\u2019d already had two evenings on the wall where I didn\u2019t have any of my warm clothing because it was in the equipment bag, so I was particularly cold, and I just knew that I couldn\u2019t spend another night pretty much shivering all night.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo at that point, I was like, we really just have to try and get ourselves out of this situation and go down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I prefer to go down without the right equipment and give ourselves some sort of hope of survival, rather than just sit another night and and freeze.\u201d<\/p>\n

They were reportedly airlifted by an Indian air force helicopter to a helipad at Joshimath, a town 21 miles south-east of Chaukhamba, at 7am local time on Sunday.<\/p>\n

A French climbing party helped with the rescue after the group helped them descend to the altitude from which they were eventually airlifted, according to the air force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A British mountaineer and her American companion who were stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food have described the long silence between them after the bulk of their equipment plunged into a ravine. Fay Manners, 37, and Michelle Dvorak, 31, had been climbing the Chaukhamba mountain in northern India, when they issued an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"\n