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Title: Climbers gave up their summit bid and their reserve oxygen to keep a stricken solo climber alive at 6,100 meters on Lenin Peak

Osh, Kyrgyzstan, 25th Sep 2026 - On the evening of 14 July, a team preparing to summit Lenin Peak (7,134 m) found a lone climber unconscious in a tent at Camp 3, at 6,100 meters. Instead of climbing, the team spent the night keeping him alive — on the oxygen cylinder they had carried up the mountain for their own summit push — until a rescue party could reach them. Russian mountaineer Darina Borodina, who led the response, abandoned her summit attempt and descended.The climber, a young Polish mountaineer attempting the peak solo, was evacuated to hospital in Osh and died [nine] days later. Borodina returned to the mountain alone on 23 July and reached the summit on 27 July. She is now speaking publicly about what the rescue showed her about preparation for high-altitude climbing.What happened at 6,100 metersBorodina's team had moved up to Camp 3 to begin its summit push on Lenin Peak, one of the harder seven-thousands in the Pamirs. A single tent caught Borodina's attention because it was not a high-altitude tent. Inside, the team found a climber unconscious and unresponsive.His condition was critical. The clinical picture pointed to severe altitude illness, including cerebral oedema — one of the most dangerous complications of acute mountain sickness, which in combination with severe hypoxia can impair consciousness within hours and threaten life.The team radioed the Ministry of Emergency Situations and requested an evacuation, then began treatment. Two days of snowfall meant the Sherpa rescue party had to break trail through deep snow to reach 6,100 meters, and the climb took several hours. In the meantime, the team:moved the climber into one of their own tents and into their high-altitude sleeping bag;opened their reserve oxygen cylinder — carried for their summit at...

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