Video showing how Pip Ivan Mountain Rescuers evacuated injured tourist from the mountain was uploaded to the Internet a few days ago.
Initially, a guide and a group of tourists from Poland (TURE team) were trying to help the injured man. They have been trying to transport the victim from the mountain alone until the professional help was received.
On March 8, 2020 at 2:30 pm the rescue team from Pip Ivan Mountain received a message that in the area of Smotrych mountain there was a tourist from Kiev who needed immediate help. The man injured his lower extremity. He was a member of tourist group from Kiev climbing to the Pip Ivan mountain. At 2:47 pm three rescuers and four volunteers started carrying out emergency rescue operation – reported Department for Civil Safety of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration.
At 8:24 pm near the Dzembronya village (Verkhovyna district), members of rescue team met the instructor and members of the tourist group and handed them the injured person in a satisfactory condition. The rescue operation took about five and a half hours.
By the way, the rescue help was given a week after joint Ukrainian-Polish mountain rescuers training in pre-hospital care provision, which was held on February 28, 2020 in Ivano-Frankivsk within the project PLBU.03.02.00-UA-0754/17-00 “Adaptation of former observatory on the Pip Ivan Mountain to the needs of alpine rescue service training center – PIMReC”.