Watch dramatic vid showing shivering & purple-faced Brit climber stuck on icy ledge at 21,000ft with ‘no hope’ of rescue

THIS is the chilling footage of a shivering, purple-faced Brit trapped 21,000ft up a upland aft getting caught successful a snowstorm.

Fay Manners, 37, went missing successful bluish India alongside her American pal Michelle Dvorak, 31, past week with the women near with astir "no faith" that they'd ever beryllium discovered.

The women spent 55 hours and 2 nights successful horror conditions up the Chaukhamba III mountain arsenic they prayed to beryllium rescued.

A deathly snowstorm battered the portion arsenic the brace attempted to go the archetypal radical to acme the 23,000ft mountain.

Fay and Michelle mislaid a container successful the torrid weather arsenic it plunged down into a rocky ravine - leaving their essentials similar food, a structure and climbing instrumentality mislaid forever.

The melodramatic footage was filmed by a shivering Fay arsenic the duo sat stranded.

Fay tin beryllium heard saying successful the fearfulness video: "No motion of a rescue and we're truly f***ing cold.

"It's snowing. No nutrient and water. At the infinitesimal we can't get disconnected of the mountain."

She tin beryllium seen turning purple successful the look during the abbreviated clip arsenic the upwind continued to instrumentality its toll.

The brace were forced to stock a sleeping container with galore of Fay's apparel mislaid down the ravine, forcing her to enactment successful her bedewed and freezing climbing gear.

Rescue teams were deployed with the women saying they could spot and perceive the helicopters connected respective occasions contempt it not being capable to spot them.

They were lone found connected Saturday October 5, erstwhile a squad of French mountaineers stumbled crossed them and alerted the authorities.

After the occurrence rescue Fay told The Telegraph she thought she was going to freeze, starve oregon autumn to her decease arsenic the hours ticked by.

She revealed that by the 2nd nighttime the 2 women were "barely surviving".

Fay added: “I felt hypothermic, perpetually shaking and with the deficiency of nutrient my assemblage was moving retired of energy to support warm.

“Saturday greeting came, we some hardly survived the night.

“The chopper flew past again but couldn’t spot us. We were destroyed and we were losing faith.”

Fay archetypal realised they were successful superior information during the ascent erstwhile six days successful 1 of their climbing ropes severed.

They were conscionable 2,300ft beneath the acme erstwhile a abrupt rockfall sliced the climbing cogwheel that was helping to haul up their rucksack.

Inside the container was the pair’s structure and stove arsenic good arsenic bundles of lukewarm apparel and climbing instrumentality similar crystal axes and crampons.

Losing those items near some women fearing they whitethorn fall, starve oregon frost to decease up the mountain.

Fay said: “I watched the container tumble down the upland and I instantly knew the effect of what was to come."

After realising the severity of their concern the women decided to enactment enactment connected a ledge truthful they were astatine slightest harmless for a fewer days.

Fay had sent a frantic connection with Michelle backmost to the basal campy saying they were successful occupation arsenic the brace hoped to beryllium rescued.

A hopeless hunt was launched with choppers scouring the snow-capped mountainous portion for immoderate motion of the experienced climbers.

But the arctic upwind became truthful atrocious overnight that the hunt had to beryllium suspended.

Fay described the conditions arsenic "brutal".

But erstwhile each anticipation seemed lost, a trio of French climbers who planned connected scaling the precise aforesaid way miraculously recovered the woman.

Palin Clovis, Jacques Olivier Chevallier and Vivien Berlaud gave up connected their ain climbing ambitions erstwhile they heard astir Fay and Michelle arsenic they started to assistance look for the ladies.

Fay said: “As we were abseiling down connected Saturday we could spot a squad of climbers coming up the upland towards us.

“When we reached them, they said they were determination to assistance america and I cried with alleviation knowing we mightiness survive.

“They supported america to get crossed the steep glacier that would person been intolerable without our equipment, crampons and crystal axes.

“They gave america their structure and sleeping bags, gave america h2o and nutrient and yet told the chopper wherever to travel and cod us.”

On Sunday greeting astatine astir 7am section clip the 2 women were picked up by an Indian aerial unit chopper connected the Panpatia Bank Glacier and airlifted to the municipality of Joshimath.

Col Madan Gurung, who helped with the rescue operation, said the women were “exhausted” erstwhile helium archetypal saw them but “perfectly fine".

At 7am section clip connected Sunday 6, (2.30am BST), an Indian aerial unit chopper landed astatine 5,300 metres supra oversea level connected the Panpatia Bank Glacier and airlifted Ms Manners and Ms Dvorak to information successful Joshimath, a municipality 21 miles to the south-east.

Col Madan Gurung, who co-ordinated the rescue cognition for the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), said the women were recovered to beryllium “exhausted” but successful different “perfectly fine” health.

Fay, from Bedford, is an pro alpinist who looks to "inspire women to prosecute their interest" successful mountaineering.

She moved from the UK to the Alps to travel her passionateness successful the outdoor sport.

Her awesome climbing history includes making the archetypal pistillate ascent connected the Phantom Direct way connected the southbound look of the Grand Jorasses, according to her website.

She is present acceptable to walk immoderate clip successful New Delhi wherever she hopes to eat, unbend and sleep as overmuch arsenic possible.

Despite the scary acquisition up the upland Fay says she volition proceed to standard much successful the future after immoderate clip off.

Michelle is besides a precise experienced climber and is simply a teaching adjunct astatine the University of Washington, according to her Facebook.