Climbing Hoverla didn't go according to plan

A group of 12 members of a youth military organization set off on a hike along the Chornohirskyi Ridge with the intention of climbing Hoverla and Petros. The travelers started along the green route from the Zaroslyak sports base despite stormy weather with heavy downpours, which turned into frost at night to -10 °C.

Due to exhaustion, the tourists were unable to reach the summit and had to traverse it on frozen grass, where one of the participants injured her knee. The group stopped for a cold night at an unheated eco-point 700 meters from the summit on the Transcarpathian side, but around midnight some of the travelers experienced symptoms of severe hypothermia: disorientation, nausea, severe headache, and fever.

The tourists called for help by phone, and specialists directed them to the Peremychka Petros-Hoverla shelter. There, volunteers provided first aid, gave people hot tea, and organized the drying of wet equipment and sleeping bags. Later, specialists from the mountain search and rescue group of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine from the village of Vydrychka arrived at the shelter. Four of the injured were evacuated by special equipment to the village of Luhy and handed over to medics, and the remaining eight tourists, after spending the night, went down on their own along a safe route.