Four people are feared to have been killed in an avalanche collapsed and engulfed a camp on the night of the February 13/14 in the area of Mt. Big Nakhar, Makharskoe gorge, North Caucasus, southern Russia, Karachai-Circassian Republic, about 116 kilometers to the south of the republic's capital.

In the Ministry of Emergency Measures informed the names of lost climbers: Andrey Bychkov from Moscow, Sergey Tabakov from Engels (Saratov area), Sergey Rashitov from Norilsk and a ministry rescuer Konstantin Dorro. Another climber Dmitry Golubev from Maikop with a heavy trauma of his backbone was hospitalized.

In total there were eight climbers in the camp planned to ascend Mt. Nakhar (3780m).