search & rescue

Retiree went out fishing but got lost on his way home in first whiteout of autumn.

Group of tourists got stuck at 2,300m after helicopter blades froze.

Appalling conditions in Alrosa's Mir mine forces end to search on submerged level 310 some 11 days after devastating flood.

Father missing under snow; more than 200 people continue search and rescue at -23C, snowstorm and bleak light of polar night.

More than eighty rescue workers and a helicopter are involved in the hunt for the boys in sub-zero temperatures.

Marooned men went for up to 3 weeks without food on island in Laptev Sea in temperatures of minus 15C.

A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches. 

Ivan Ustinov and Evgeny Luchnikov, both 11, reunited with mothers after massive rescue operation.

Wife pleaded with rescuers to search for the businessman saying: 'We feel that our man is dying.’

The fishermen were found drifting on an ice floe in the area bigger than Switzerland.