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Fatal climbing accident in Svaneti, Georgia
Rescuer workers at Guli Glacier. (Emergency Management Agency).
TBILISI, DFWatch–A foreign tourist has died in a climbing accident in the Svaneti highlands, according to the Emergency Management Agency of Georgia.
Officials did not name the deceased but indicated it was a citizen of Switzerland. Local media reported that the death was caused by a fall into a ravine from a great height.
A man who was travelling with the victim at time of the accident was not injured.
“Public Security Management Center 112 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received information that a tourist was in Mestia (municipality), at the Guli Pass, asking for the help. Also, a special call was received from the U.S. […] which received the SOS signal and provided coordinates of the tourists. According to the initiator of the message, the woman who accompanied him fell from a height into the ravine and was presumed dead,” says a statement released by the E