Missing Climbers May Have Tried to Descend Deadly Slope
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SEATTLE, Dec. 18 -- As searchers retrieved the body of one Mount Hood climber on Monday, authorities said two others appeared to have tried to descend the Oregon peak by way of a treacherous glacier slope where many other climbers have died.
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The bigger they are, the harder they could fall.
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With bad weather expected to descend on Mount Hood, the chance for the climbersâ survival is diminishing.
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Six climbers were killed on Thursday in the Swiss Alps, rescuers in the village of Lauterbrunnen in central Switzerland said.
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Rangers at Yosemite National Park have found the bodies of two Japanese climbers on El Capitan. The pair had been stranded on the rock formation after being caught in an early winter storm.
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Authorities said Wednesday they had been unable to confirm reports that two more skiers were buried by a deadly avalanche and they were reassessing whether a search should resume.
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A huge avalanche near Whitefish Mountain Resort killed two backcountry skiers and searchers combed the slide area for two other possible victims.
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Rescue workers searching for three lost climbers on Oregon's highest peak confronted stormy weather again Thursday and planned to search lower elevations in hopes that some climbers had managed to descend that far.
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A search is under way after reports that two divers are missing off the Pembrokeshire coast.
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Rescuers in Tajikistan try to reach people trapped by an avalanche that killed at least 16 people.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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Four climbers died of cold and exhaustion after losing their way on snow-capped Mont Blanc in the French Alps, police said Tuesday.
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Austrian rescuers look for a missing snowboarder after at least four people died in avalanches.
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Rescuers searched Monday through the remnants of a deadly avalanche, unsure whether more backcountry skiers had been caught up in the slide in northwestern Montana.
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Search teams dug through 30-foot  deep snow on Saturday to try to find as many as five off-trail  skiers believed trapped by a "monster" avalanche on Friday near  Park City, Utah, but hopes of them surviving were faint,  officials said.
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Recovery operations at a landslide in southwest China which left at least 23 dead and scores missing have resumed as nearby coal mines were shut for investigations into their possible role in the disaster.
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The fate of the other two climbers who set out with him to climb the 11, 239-foot peak last weekend remained unclear today.