Rescuers in Indonesia are looking for a Brazilian tourist who fell while he was close to the crater of Mount Rinjani, an active volcano.
The Brazilian media and the woman’s family have identified her as Juliana Marins, who walked with a group when she disappeared around 06:30 local time on Saturday (23:30 GMT on Friday).
The Brazilian authorities said it fell from “a cliff that surrounds the path next to the crater of the volcano.”
The search and rescue attempts so far are not successful due to the extreme terrain and the hacking climate, according to the Indonesian authorities.
The authorities of the Mount Rinjani Park said in a publication on the social networks that rescuers on Saturday had heard the shouts of Mrs. Marins of help. At that time he was safe, he thought it seemed to be in a state of shock, they said.
The images of drones and other clips filmed by hikers who have circulated online and carried by the Brazilian media also seem to show that he was alive on Saturday. He was seen sitting and moving on gray soil, well below a hiking path.
But later that day, rescuers could not find when 300m (984 feet) descend where they thought it was located, nor answered when they called it.
For Sunday morning, Drones images showed that it was no longer in their location, the park authorities said, who added that the thick fog had hindered rescue efforts and affected the use of a thermal drone.
On Monday, rescuers were able to locate Mrs. Marins again, who seemed to have fallen further, but they had to stop working due to “climatic conditions”, according to the family.
The rescuers had “advanced only 250 m down, they had 350 m left to get to Juliana, but they retired,” the family said in their social media account.
The family also said that the park remains open and that tourists were still walking on the same route “while Juliana needs help! We do not know the state of their health! It still does not have water, food or hot clothes for three days!”
Satyawan Potyatmoko, an official of the Forestry Ministry of Indonesia, told the BBC on Monday that the route was not closed after the officials evaluated that “it would not interrupt the evacuation process.”
“The climbers were caressed and ordered not to approach the evacuation site,” said some climbers had made reservations online and traveled long distances to reach Mount Rinjani.
“Closing the climb would have a chaos potentially for those climbers,” he said.
The BBC has contacted Mrs. Marins’s family and the authorities of the Mount Rinjani Park to comment.
On Tuesday, Mrs. Marins’ family wrote on social networks that the rescue operation for her has restarted.
In interviews with the Brazilian television network Globo, two members in Mrs. Marins’s group described the increase as difficult.
One said the climb was “very hard” and “it was so cold, it was very, very difficult.”
Another said that at the time of the accident, Mrs. Marins was at the back of the group walking with her guide. “It was very early, before dawn, in conditions of poor visibility with just a simple flashlight to illuminate the land that was difficult and slippery,” he said.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was in contact with the Indonesian government and had sent two employees of the Embassy to monitor rescue efforts.
Mr. Satyawan, the forest official, He said Monday that climbers should prioritize their safety while walking.
In 2022, a Portuguese man died after falling from a cliff at the summit of Mount Rinjani. In May of this year, a Malaysian hiker died after a fall while the volcano climbed.
With a height of more than 3,700 m, Mount Rinjani is the second highest volcano in Indonesia and a place of popular hiking with tourists.