FIVE MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD ON EVEREST CLIMB.Byline: Tim Klass Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. At Mountain Madness, Scott Fischer's guide service, the champagne had already been poured to toast his climbing of Mount Everest. Then came a report Saturday that the veteran climber climb·er n. 1. One that climbs, especially a person who climbs mountains. 2. Sports A device, such as a crampon, used in mountain climbing. 3. A plant that climbs. 4. known as ``Mr. Rescue'' was missing and presumed dead, along with four others. The climbers apparently lost their way in a blizzard while heading back to base camps Friday on the world's tallest mountain, said Hari Saran Shreshta, a spokesman for the Nepalese Tourism Ministry in Katmandu. He identified three of the others as Seaborn B. Weather of Dallas, Yasuko Namba, 47, of Tokyo, and Andrew Michael Harris Mike Harris or Michael Harris may refer to:
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin lake shaped like a staggered lightning bolt, and has . Relatives of Douglas Hansen, 44, of Renton, Wash., said he was the fifth climber. More than 600 climbers have scaled Everest, and nearly 100 have died making the attempt. Ministry officials said Hansen and the others were members of one climbing group led by a New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. guide, while Fischer, 40, led a separate eight-member group. A message posted by Fischer's group on the Internet on Friday said he and his group had reached the top of Everest and that most of them ``had something else going on healthwise: Khumbu cough, sinus infections, bronchitis bronchitis (brŏnkī`tĭs), inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bronchial tubes. It can be caused by viral or bacterial infections or by allergic reactions to irritants such as tobacco smoke. .'' Khumbu refers to an ice field on Everest. On Friday afternoon, before the report that the climbers were missing, there was a champagne celebration at Mountain Madness. On Saturday, Internet messages said members of Fischer's group had bundled him up and left him with an oxygen bottle to ``concentrate their flagging strength'' on getting another stricken climber to safety. Karen Dickinson, Fischer's partner in the guide firm, said in Seattle that he was last seen unconscious and barely clinging to life above 27,000 feet on the mountain on Saturday afternoon, or 4 a.m. Seattle time. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Scott Fischer Scott E Fischer (December 24 1955 – May 11 1996) was an American climber and guide. Fischer spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey and took two years of climbing courses after being inspired at the age of 14 by a show he saw on television. , near a Mount Everest approach, is amo ng five climbers missing on the mountain. Associated Press |
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