Risks and safety in the mountains
One of the main reasons for accidents with tourists in the mountains is underestimating the complexity of the route and overestimating one’s own strength.
Every year in winter in Ukraine, the number of tragic incidents with tourists in the Carpathians who get lost in the mountains or even freeze to death there increases. Moreover, after the start of the full-scale Russian war, the lost ordinary vacationers were also supplemented by draft dodgers who are trying to escape across the mountains abroad.
“Since the beginning of 2024, the mountain search and rescue units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have rescued 579 people who got lost in the mountains. In addition, 283 tourists were provided with pre-medical assistance. Unfortunately, 18 people died in the mountains in 11 months,” he said during a briefing in Media Center Ukraine press officer of the State Service…
