In Listvyanka, a 23 year old tourist from Irkutsk fell from a five meter cliff while walking along the shore of Lake Baikal, but miraculously avoided serious injuries. Plants and a gentle grassy slope saved him, and rescuers who arrived by boat took the young man to medics.
A 23-year-old tourist from Irkutsk fell from a 5-meter cliff in Listvyanka on August 29. The man was walking along the shore of Lake Baikal near Cape Berezovy when he accidentally slipped on an elevated area and fell.- The report of the incident came from eyewitnesses at 6 a.m., - said the information center of the Baikal Search and Rescue Team. – Rescuers immediately set out to retrieve the injured man by boat.
The young man was not seriously injured. Fortunately, he managed to grab onto plants and did not roll into the lake. He was also saved by the fact that the cliff he fell from was not rocky, but sloping, earthen, and overgrown with grass. Rescuers took the tourist to the BPSO base in the village of Nikola, from where medical workers picked him up and took him to Irkutsk. His life and health are not in danger.