1 missing climber's body found in China

[journalist3072]

1 missing climber's body found in China

By SCOTT McDONALD, Associated Press Writer
47 minutes ago

BEIJING - The body of a U.S. climber missing for more than a month has been found on a remote mountain in southwestern China while a second climber is still missing and presumed dead, a rescue coordinator said Wednesday.

The body discovered was partially buried and has not been identified, said Arlene Burns, a friend of the climbers, Christine Boskoff and Charlie Fowler.

"The rescuers were told to take pictures without disturbing anything. They will go back up in the morning with shovels," Burns said from Telluride, Colo., where she was helping to coordinate the rescue effort.

Boskoff, a top female climber, and Fowler, a climbing guide and photographer, were reported missing after they failed to return to the United States on Dec. 4.

Entire article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061227/ap_on_re_as/china_us_climbers

[opihimoimoi]

1. For a moment, I was thinking it was one of the two from Mt Hood...Damn...

:toast: :facetious:

[journalist3072]

2. I really must not be on my game today, because I thought that too!

[soothsayer]

4. Me, three! Thought they must have fallen in one of them holes

that goes straight thru to china. Damn.

[uppityperson]

7. me 4. Glad someone was found, another closure for another family

[phusion]

3. the body has not been identified?

How can they say, then, that "the body of a U.S. climber missing for more than a month has been found"?

I know the odds are that it is one of the missing Americans, but isn't that misleading?

Sad story either way...

Some of Fowler's photos:
http://www.charliefowler.com/photos.html

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Maybe family members have not been notified...

Or maybe it's the Chinese government's way of reporting...

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[High Plains]

6. Wow, nothing like a sweeping generalization...

[ellisonz]

9. They very well may have been murdered and robbed...

there is no law or order in that region. Every man for himself.

[brentspeak]

10. Murdered and robbed at the 17,390 foot mark?

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. Those yetis live in a bad neighborhood with few opportunities

What else are they going to do but mug climbers?

[htuttle]

12. Not to mention having to feed their frop addiction

That stuff is expensive!