Mountaineer Lotta Hintsa tells Iltalehte about her health.
Lotta Hintsa tells Iltalehti about her health. Jenni Gästgivar
Mountaineer Lotta Hintsa, 34, said on Sunday that he had an accident in the Himalayan mountains in Nepal. Hintsa posted a bloody picture on Instagram and said that he had fallen during the 13-kilometer hiking trip to the base camp.
Hintsa tells Iltalehte that he and the Swedish climber Jenni Jalonen was originally intended to climb Himlung, which is more than seven kilometers high.
– However, this will remain the shortest expedition of my life, he says to Iltalehte.
– When 13 km had been completed and I tripped on the bridge being taken down with a heavy tire, as a result of which I hit my head on the bridge. It was a bit blurry, but I quickly realized that the forehead is really open and the head is throwing.
Hintsa says that he collected himself after the accident. He received help from the members of the German climbing group, with whom he was to share the base camp accommodation.
– A pressure bandage was put on the head. Jenni and their photographer Daniel Hug went to escort me back to the starting point. There, we took a jeep to the nearest village hospital, where the wound was cleaned, a couple of stitches were initially put in, and a concussion was diagnosed, Lotta Hintsa says.
– A night observing Jenni and in the morning we waited four hours for a helicopter when the weather didn’t allow us to fly. Then in Kathmandu to the hospital.
At the hospital in Kathmandu, Lotta Hintsa underwent, among other things, CT scans, the big wound was cleaned and proper sutures were put on it.
– Because of the concussion, they are still under observation at night, says Lotta.
He tells Iltalehti that he does not yet know when he will return to Finland. It is assumed that we will leave for the trip home fairly soon.
Earlier, Lotta Hintsa shared her feelings about Nepal and praised her traveling companion. He said that he had been suffering from pain in the Achilles tendon, but that it had passed. A couple of weeks ago, the atmosphere was expectant and eager to conquer the mountains.