We have received the following email from Boguslawa Marszalik-Kostyra asking for help in locating her husband lost on the above mountain.
Welcome!
On http://www.spanishhighs.co.uk website I found the information about Ojos del Salado’s expeditions that you organise regularly.
On the 29th of October, while descending the volcano, my husband Grzegorz (Gregory) Kostyra, went missing. Gregory and his two friends set off for Chile on the 20th of October. Their goal was Ojos del Salado. He and his friend reached the crater’s edge on the 29th of October. At 4.15 pm Gregory’s partner decided to go back. Gregory stayed a bit longer because he wanted to take some photos. Last time he was seen from the Tejos refuge while descending. Another friend, who had decided to stay in the refuge, was observing the light of his lantern. She claims that Gregory must have been at an altitude of 6,100 metres. The light disappeared suddenly – possibly Gregory entered a kind of a trough and never reappeared. Potentially he lost the way. Nevertheless, it’s just one of the hypothesis and we do not know for sure what happened. It was already dark and his friends did not start looking for him until the next day. Because they could not find him, they decided to go back to a lower refuge, the Atacama, hoping that Gregory had somehow found his way and got there. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case. On the 31st of October they informed the Chilean Authorities and official rescue operation started. It lasted until the 20th of November but gave no results. Since the 21st of November we have been looking for Gregory privately thanks to the help of the mountain guides from Aventurismo who had been involved as volunteers since the first day.
If you are going to climb Ojos del Salado in the nearest future, please watch out for any signs that could help us to discover Gregory’s whereabouts.
Some days ago I set up a with my friends the special website in order to reach everyone who is planning on climbing the volcano Ojos del Salado -
http://www.ojosdelsalado.info You’ll find there a full description of Gregory’s rescue operation.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Boguslawa Marszalik-Kostyra.
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