Jinji went with a guide from a trekking company in Leh and 3 others Israelis, Yaniv, Yuval and Dov all as fit as him to climb the Stok peak at 20,000'. Unfortunately, the agency they hired was not professional enough for the conditions they had to face. From 17,000' to the top, ice crampons were necessary; but they did not have the essential ice axe, helmet and  roap with harness.

At midnight they left camp to the summit they reached at about 5 am. 20 minutes later they started the descend. The guide with Yuval and Dov started to go down; 50 yards behind Yaniv and Jinji followed them.
As soon as they started their descend, Yaniv took a right side of a big rock and Jinji took the left side of that rock, this is where Jinji lost his feet…

Yaniv did not see Jinji when he initially loose his feet but he saw Jinji trying to stick his ski pole in the snow and ice but it broke. Yaniv saw jinji sliding down, bouncing and rolling on the snow, ice and rocks!

Further down, there were a group of 7 indian clients going up to the summit with 3 guides named Takpa, Suraj and Gulzar. Takpa said lowdly to his group, "ROCK" so every one should watch out, then he said "BAG" and then he had between 5 and 6 secondes to react when he realized it was a person, he moved to the side, stick his ice axe firmly in the ice and grabbed Jinji passing by him between his legs, they both bounced together in circle around the ice axe solidly anchored  and they came to a stop. Jinji is a big man of 210 lbs, he had his life saved a first time that day by the 130 lbs Takpa. Tapka told us later that if Jinji had not stopped there, he had no chance of survival with what was waiting for him further down.

Takpa, Suraj and Gulzar knew what they had to do, they immediately, put an oxygen mask on Jinji, at 19,000' he would not have survived long. They stayed for the next 5 hours with Jinji until finally the helicopter arrived to take him. They new they were too high for the helicopter and there were no flat area for the landing anyway; they had to go down about 2,000'. Jinji was groaning loudly at every breath, he had consciousness but was never able to say a word. The 3 Israeli with their guide came, Yaniv stayed with Jinji and the guide while the 2 others went down to base camp to call for help. The 3 guides assessed that Jinji had certainly broken leg, broken arm and his head was bleeding a lot as well as blood was coming out from his mouth. Time was of the essence. Gulzar climbed to the summit (or close to) to have a cell phone connection. He was able to contact his family to do folowup on his call (all mountaineers) the Jewish center of Leh and few others to have help coming asap.

Takpa, Suraj and Gulzar started to built a stretcher with the ski poles and ropes they had. Lowering the 210 lbs Jinji was not easy. The 4 of them were constantly talking to Jinji and Jinji was responding by grabbing their harms with a huge force still groaning at each breath. It took 5 hours for the helicopter to came and at one point the big oxygen bottle run out. They had a small canister of oxygen for about 10 minutes. after that Jinji would not live long in his condition even at 17,000' where they were now. Gulzar called again screaming on the phone that it was a matter of minutes for Jinji. The 2 helicopters arrived before the canister expired. That was the second time Jinji had his life saved that day.

By the time Jinji arrived at the hospital he lost consciousness. I saw Jinji at the hosptial at the end of the afternoon, he was not responding, but was moving his fingers, his arm and one of his leg. The next morning before the consul of Israel arrived with a doctor to bring Jinji to New Delhi, I saw him responding to the voice command of an israeli doctor by opening his eyes and then closing them still at the doctor command.

A couple of days later when I met Gulzar, he told me, “I never saw a man suffuring as much as Jinji, but i never saw either a man fighting so much not to die”