Eight climbers missing on treacherous mountain
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Search-and-rescue coordinators assembled Sunday in near white-out conditions on Mount Hood in Oregon in an attempt to find eight climbers -- three of whom had fallen from a ledge, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said in a written statement.
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Rescue teams found the wreckage of a plane carrying 22 people, including 13 Korean and three Czech tourists, high on a jungle-clad Cambodian mountain on Wednesday. There were no survivors.
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A helicopter with 24 people on board, including WWF conservationists, goes missing in Nepal.
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Rescuers searching for three missing climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon have located a snow cave, some equipment and what appears to be a âYâ carved into the snowy flanks of the mountain, and crews were converging on the location to see if there was any sign of the men, officials said today.
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YOSEMITE - Rescuers pulled two more climbers off El Capitan on Friday, one day after the pair asked for extra supplies but turned down other help.
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Six snowmobilers missing in the snowy Colorado mountains were found alive Monday, the Conejos County Sheriff's Department said.
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More than 50 expert climbers headed up Mount Hood on Saturday, encouraged by a break in the weather that improved their chances of finding three climbers reported missing on Sunday. However, the danger of avalanches is "extreme" and could halt the day's work, authorities said.
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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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Chinese rescuers have found the body of an American climber on a remote mountain eight months after she disappeared, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
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Mountain rescue teams resume their search for a teenage boy who went missing while climbing with his father.
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Beijing - Sixteen people, including five children, have been confirmed dead while 49 others remained missing after a landslide hit a remote mountain village in south-west China on Friday, state media said.
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Rangers completed a dramatic rescue Thursday of two climbers from a snowy mountain and removed the ice-encrusted bodies of two other hikers who died on the
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The body of one of three climbers missing for more than a week on Mount Hood in Oregon was found on Sunday, a spokesman for the Hood River County Sheriff's Department said.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers tried Saturday to take advantage of easing weather conditions atop Mount Hood in the search for three missing climbers, but the fickle and still-treacherous conditions turned them back.
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Rangers rappelled down Yosemite&#39;s most forbidding peak and then carefully climbed back up the sheer 3,200-foot face of the snowy mountain, rescuing two climbers and carrying the bodies of two others on their backs.
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Searches are carried out for six missing walkers and climbers the day after a man dies in a fall in Glencoe.
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A helicopter carrying 24 people, including a government minister and senior World Wildlife Fund officials, is missing amid mounting fears it has crashed in Nepal.