Rescue operation
Four Israeli men and one Israeli woman were rescued Wednesday, twenty-four hours after being stranded in the snow-topped western Mongolian mountains.
Rescue operation (צילום: צוות החילוץ של "הראל")
The tourists, all in their twenties, alterted the authorities that they had lost their way in the mountain massif in Tavan Bogd by activating a Magnus International Search & Rescue location device, prompting a local rescue team to propel a helicopter into the skies and find the missing Israelis.
The hikers were eventually found after the helicopter had circled 1,500km of the mountainous region for ten hours, forcing it to refuel twice along the way.