Tehran, YJC. Eight climbers who lost in the heights of the Neyband mountain range this week were rescued after a 5-hour search operation.
The report was given by the Head of Tabas Red Crescent on
Friday.
Tabas County in South Khorasan Province’s Red Crescent Society
launched a search-and-rescue operation on Thursday evening at 0700 local time
to find out a group of 8 mountain climbers who were trapped in the heights of the
Neyband mountain range.
Neyband includes the highest peak in the province with a
height of 2960 meters.
Hossein-Ali Fakhari, the head of Tabas Red Crescent Society,
said to reporters that 20 units from Red Crescent Society’s search-and-rescue
force were sent to the area to aid the climbers so stuck in the mountain.
"After searching for 5 hours, the rescue forces managed to
locate 5 climbers at the vicinity of Neyband Mountain,” he stated, explaining
that because of injuries, one of the climbers had to be transferred from Kerman
Province by helicopter.
The other 4 climbers had managed to climb the mountain down without
difficulty.
The official further explained that the accident had
occurred 2 hundred kilometers away from the plain of Tabas, near Dig-e Rostam,
a village in Kavir Rural District.