Searchers locate 19 hikers stranded in Sierras
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SHAVER LAKE, Calif. -- Seizing on a break in the weather Thursday, rescuers managed to locate 19 hikers reported missing in a blizzard that also killed two climbers stranded on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
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Rescuers, family and friends searched Friday for a missing 24-year-old hiker in northern Georgia as authorities said they were looking for a "person of interest" in the case.
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Search teams scoured snow-covered slopes on Sunday for two missing skiers who were last seen at a Lake Tahoe resort during a storm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow.
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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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DAY&#39;S DRAMA: Rangers complete the precarious rescue of two climbers from a snowy mountain and remove the frozen bodies of two other hikers who died in a raging early blizzard in California&#39;s Sierras.
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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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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico  - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 31 people on Thursday and searched for dozens more believed killed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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Rescuers searched on Wednesday for scores of people missing after a suspension bridge collapsed into a river in west Nepal, killing at least 16 people, mostly women and children, and injuring 40, police said.
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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico  - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 26 people on Thursday and searched for dozens more crushed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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Rescue teams on Friday found two  members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had  survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges  in western China.
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After arresting a 61-year-old man in the disappearance of a young woman last seen hiking on a north Georgia mountain, a state Bureau of Investigation spokesman said authorities' search efforts had shifted from rescue to recovery.
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A severely autistic hiker who has been missing since Sunday is comfortable around people and would not be expected to shy away from rescuers as they call for him, a spokesman for the search effort said Wednesday.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers scoured the upper elevations of Mount Hood on Saturday as helicopters flew overhead  in the search for three climbers missing for a week on the snow-covered, wind-blasted peak.
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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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By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 10--The Sierra reminds me.   Trail hikers frequently talk of coming to their senses in the high places -- finding escape from the din of cell phones and honks of cars. They leave behind stuff-crammed buildings, carrying only a bag.
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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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In the search for missing climbers in Oregon, even military help and special equipment can't overcome bad weather.