Tourists evacuated from Elbrus have been handed over to doctors.

Rescuers handed over two tourists who were stuck on the slope of Elbrus and suffered frostbite to doctors.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," on May 10, two tourists who had not registered their route sent out a distress signal after becoming stuck at an altitude of 5,100 meters on the slope of Elbrus. Rescuers found them, assessed the tourists' condition as satisfactory, and began their descent.

Search and rescue operations in the Elbrus district have been completed; the tourists from the Donetsk region have been lowered down and handed over to doctors, the Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported today.

"The men, initially suffering from frostbite, were handed over to a medical team," Interfax reports.

As a reminder, in 2021, the deaths of five of the 19 tourists caught in a snowstorm on Elbrus at an altitude of over 5,000 meters caused a stir. Following the tragedy, local historian Viktor Kotlyarov proposed mandatory certification of guides and exams for climbers. The organizer of the ascent and two instructors were sentenced to prison terms in 2025. Elbrus is a twin-peaked cone of an extinct volcano, both peaks exceeding 5.6 kilometers. Elbrus attracts climbers and skiers from all over the world, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Elbrus - the Patriarch of the Caucasus Mountains."