Hopes are fading that an injured climber who has been stuck on a mountain in Kyrgyzstan for 12 days after rescue efforts had to be terminated because of bad weather.

Natalia Nagovitsyna was descending from the top of Jengish Chokusu, or Victory Peak, at Kyrgyzstan’s border with China, when she broke her leg on August 12.

A spokesperson for Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations told CNN in a message that the experienced mountaineer has been stuck on the mountain ever since despite repeated rescue efforts which also claimed the life of another climber.

A group of climbers managed to reach Nagovitsyna after she suffered her injury, Russian and Italian media report. While they were able to provide her with some supplies, they could not evacuate her due to the extreme conditions on t

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