“We’re going to get you out”. It is the promise that one of the rescuers repeated to Anurag Maloo, an Indian mountaineer who carried three days missing and buried under the snow in the Annapurna, in Nepal. “Be strong, friend”, she asked him, as can be seen in the video that illustrates these lines.

A avalanche had dragged him into a narrow crevasse in one of the most dangerous areas of Annapurna, more than 6,000 meters high. After falling, the rescue team began their search, but a new avalanche cut short the search.

After not finding him on the second day either, the miracle occurred on the third. “Our expectation was that he was 99% dead.“, says Chhepal Sherpa, from the rescue team. “We could see how the body was moving, breathing,” says the rescuer, who describes what happened as a “miracle.”

The difficulty to extract it was maximum, according to details of the head of the rescue team, Álex Txikon. “Everyone expected that they would go to remove a corpsein a very, very dangerous area where the avalanches hit them”, he stresses, noting that it is “a miracle” that they managed to get him out alive.

the indian mountaineer his arms and legs were broken and communicated with his rescuers by blinking, according to Txikon. Now, although his prognosis is reserved, his life is not in danger, despite having spent 72 hours buried and immobile in the snow.