Toronto, we need your help.

Mia and Fred Flipse contacted the Star to share their story: The Dutch couple wants to thank a group of Toronto vacationers who saved them off the side of an Icelandic volcano on June 21.

They were 45 minutes into a climb up Leirhnjukur, a black lava field, located in the Krafla caldera of northeast Iceland. Around 2 p.m. Mia stumbled on a rock, fracturing her ankle in three places.

Leirhnjukur is a collapsed, but still active, volcanic area that has a diameter of 10 km and an elevation of 592 meters, as well as a hiking trail that runs through it.

“I was not able to make the walk down. The ankle was dislocated and very painful,” said Mia, 62 and a registered nurse.

The pair was feeling hopeless and alone when a group of about 10 people came across the cooled lava crust like a mirage to save the day.

“We were so happy they (came); they were so nice, and immediately they (helped) us,” Mia told the Star over Skype.

The group — who told the Flipses they were from Toronto — carried her down the mountain, first on their shoulders, then on a found piece of plastic tarp and finally on a wooden pallet they discovered along the trail.

“We are so grateful,” she said. “We just feel ashamed that we don’t know their names to thank them in person.”

Mia said she regrets not asking the group more about themselves, but was in a lot of pain and had low blood pressure.

“We don’t know what would have happened if they didn’t come,” she said. “I would still be on that volcano.”

The Flipses hope that perhaps Star readers can help locate the Toronto group, who they describe as being Caucasian and between 20 and 30 years old.

Some of the men have beards and one is wearing a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap in photos the couple provided to the Star. Most of them are wearing sunglasses.

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Mia had an operation in Iceland after the rescue and is still using crutches today. She says it looks like the injury will take up to six months to heal.

“But we still need to say a heartfelt thanks to those boys and girls. We were so moved that there are such good people in the world,” Mia told the Star. “You hear bad news all day, but this was so good. We hope you can help us find those guys!

“There are such good people in Toronto.”

lbeeston@thestar.ca