WINDS SLOW EVEREST SEARCH.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 battled fierce winds Sunday as they searched for two Americans and six other missing climbers, and attempted to reach 22 people stranded on a 5-mile high pass on Mount Everest. The climbers, hailing from 11 separate expeditions, became disoriented dis·o·ri·ent tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation. Adj. 1. or were forced to cut short their treks when a blizzard hit the world's highest mountain over the weekend. There were reports that most of the eight missing climbers had died, but they couldn't immediately be confirmed. Seaborn B. Weather, 49, of Dallas, who had earlier been reported missing, has returned to a lofty Everest pass known as South Col The South Col usually refers to the southern col between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the first and fourth highest mountains in the world. When climbers attempt to climb Everest from the southeast ridge in Nepal, their final camp (usually camp IV) is situated on the South Col. , Nepalese Tourism Ministry spokesman Hari Sharan Shreshta said. A separate expedition led by American 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. apparently became lost Friday while descending the summit to the 26,400-foot-high South Col. |
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