Rescuers on the first day weekend morning decided to stop for some time in a month and a half search of the tourists came under an avalanche in the mountains of Altai, because of the danger of a possible secondary avalanche, said Last news in the press service of EMERCOM in the region. "A search team on the first day of the weekend to return to base, due to the worsening weather conditions, decided to stop for some time wanted tourists to a month and a half because of the danger of a possible secondary avalanche," - said the head of the Department. the Ministry stressed that due to the weather the use of aircraft for the third day. Communication with rescuers is carried out independently, by satellite phone they report on its activities several times a day. The ground is 60 to 100 square meters, the depth of the snow mass five meters. As practice shows, such a search operation have the opportunity to drag on for an indefinite period of time. A group of nine tourists from the section of mountain tourism Novosibirsk state University, overland fourth category of difficulty in the area of the South-Chuya ridge, came under an avalanche on may 6, seven of them lost their lives. According to the MOE, found the bodies of five dead. <span style="color:darkgray