The death toll from the avalanche in Kabardino-Balkaria has risen to 13.

Rescuers found the body of another climber in the gorge. Bezengi. 

The search for four people continues on the slope and at the foot of the mountain. MizhirgiAccording to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, work is being complicated by dangerous, rugged terrain and repeated snow avalanches.

An avalanche engulfed a group of 33 climbers in the Bezengi Gorge on September 6. Ten of them descended on their own. 

The fate of four people remains unknown.