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A dog has been rescued from a precarious situation to say the least in the southern Norwegian mountains.
After half a day stranded on a small mountain shelf, two private individuals managed to rescue the dog during the night.
The dog had gotten stuck on a mountain ledge on the 1,205 meter high mountain Lisle Storenut near Hovden, Norway. Late on Tuesday evening, the police called off the rescue operation citing that it was too dangerous. It was deemed impossible to get to the dog – both from above and from below. The public was ordered to stay away from the area.
Then Idar Byremo, who himself has a dog and who owns a cabin in the area, together with a colleague decided to take matters into his own hands. At one o’clock, on the night of Wednesday, the two arrived at the snow-covered mountain shelf.
– We took harnesses, fuses and sundries with us and managed to cling to the mountain. Then I celebrated my friend down, says Byremo to the Norwegian Agderposten.
The dog seemed close to giving up when they reached it, he says.
– It was strange, because it was just like you could hear that it was about to give up. It made less and less noise, and finally it just stood there. So it was at the last second.
Arriving at Byremo’s cabin at three o’clock in the morning, the exhausted dog was given hamburgers, dog food and water.
Before the two men, who are now hailed as heroes in the Norwegian press, began their rescue operation, the police had begun to discuss euthanizing the dog. At the same time, a private fundraiser was set up to fund a helicopter rescue of the dog. On Wednesday morning, it had received almost NOK 490,000.