PAIR'S BODIES FOUND IN SNOW.Byline: 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. Rescuers dug through eight feet of snow Sunday to uncover the bodies of a U.S. medical school dean, his wife and three Nepalese guides who died while sleeping in their tent in the Himalayas. The bodies of Philip J. Fialkow, 62, a genetics expert at the University of Washington medical school in Seattle, and his wife, Helen, also 62, were flown by helicopter to Dunai, the nearest city 180 miles northwest of Katmandu. The deaths added to a disastrous year for Himalayan climbers This list of climbers includes both mountaineers and rock climbers, since many (though not all) climbers engage in both types of activities. The list also includes boulderers and ice climbers. . Eleven mountaineers, including two professional guides leading commercial expeditions, were killed last spring on Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. Two American climbers suffocated under piles piles: see hemorrhoids. of snow while climbing on Mount Annapurna IV in eastern Nepal Eastern Nepal is Southwards and includes the highest mountain in the world. Cities The major cities of this region are Biratnagar, Rajbiraj, Dharan and Dhankuta. Another notable place is Namche Bazaar, the town near the base camp of Mt. last month. Nine other climbers died attempting to scale other Himalayan peaks this year. The bodies of Fialkow, his wife and three Nepalese Sherpas were found Sunday at an altitude altitude, vertical distance of an object above some datum plane, such as mean sea level or a reference point on the earth's surface. It is usually measured by the reduction in atmospheric pressure with height, as shown on a barometer or altimeter. of 15,500 feet in western Nepal - the site where they were last seen Oct. 21. |
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