Rescuers save Lithuanian citizen stuck at 4000-meter altitude on Kazbegi [VIDEO]

Rescuers have saved two Georgian nationals in Kazbegi today who were stuck at the 3200-meter Kuro peak. One of them had health problems and was unable to walk. The Kazbegi rescue team set out and was accompanied by a Border Police helicopter. Both rescuers were then brought to a safe location. 

Rescuers saved a young Georgian woman when she was hiking towards the Mkinvartsveri peak in Kazbegi region of Georgia today. The young woman was in need of medical assistance as she had injuries on legs and was unable to move. Rescuers of Kazbegi emergency service department brought the injured woman to the location where emergency brigade was mobilised.

The Caucasus skitouring network, a group of Georgian professionals has measured the country’s third-highest peak of Mkinvartsveri. Based on the new estimations, Mkinvartsveri, also known as Kazbegi Mountain, is 5,054 meters high.

Reascuers have saved four American citizens in the village of Omalo, in Georgia’s historical region of Tusheti. The Emergency Management Service of Interior Ministry received information the tourists were injured earlier today. Three women and a man were taken to Ghudushauri hospital in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi for treatment on a Border Police helicopter.

Five people, including a minor and a driver, have died in a car accident that occurred yesterday on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti. Three people have been saved and delivered to hospital, while two are still missing.

One person in still missing after a car accident that occurred on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti on July 27. Six people, including a minor and a driver, died as a truck fell into a ravine en route to the village of Omalo in Tusheti region.  

The body of a man who went missing after a car accident that occurred on the road leading to Georgia's iconic mountainous region of Tusheti on July 27 has been found. The rescue teams of the Interior Ministry's Emergency Management Service have been involved in the rescue and searching operations.

Rescuers have saved an Iranian citizen in the village of Kumelaurta, in Georgia’s historical region of Tusheti. The rescue teams of Interior Ministry’s Emergency Management Service received information that the 30-year-old tourist was badly injured.

Georgian rescuers have helped two Ukrainian tourists descend Ushba Mountain today. The Emergency Management Service was notified that the tourists had taken a fall while returning from the peak and were in need of rescuers’ assistance. 

Georgian rescuers have found three Belarusian tourists that got lost yesterday when hiking on Tetnuldi peak, Svaneti, Georgia. Two of the tourists were found dead and the other was found with severe injuries.

Police officers have rescued an abandoned newborn in Georgia’s western region of Guria. The local hospital in Ozurgeti informed police early on August 16 that they had received a young woman with postpartum complications. However, she did not have the newborn with her.  

Georgian video-maker Nika Lebanidze has joined in the #SpendYourSummerInGeorgia campaign by promoting Georgia’s mountainous Kazbegi region as one of the best sport destinations of the summer. In his video, two young Georgian skateboarders, Luka Rurua and Guga Dvali, share their impressions of skateboarding on the roads of Kazbegi. 

Mountain Resorts Development Company, which is responsible for the management and development of the resort, has reported that a group of four Russian tourists was skiing in a “forbidden zone” without the necessary equipment, when the young woman got trapped in an avalanche.

Georgian rescuers have saved a young man who was unable to climb down from a cliff in Georgia’s eastern Tetritskaro municipality, near Birtvisi Fortress.

Georgian rescuers have saved two tourists stranded near the Datvisjvari Pass in eastern Georgia’s Dusheti municipality, the Emergency Management Service said on Wednesday.