Body Found in Sichuan Province
THURSDAY, 28 DECEMBER 2006
A body which is suspected to be one of the U.S climbers who have been missing since November was found at around 5:00 p.m. Wednesday at an altitude of 5, 300 meters in Sichuan Province. A Chinese volunteer rescue team found the body in Genyen Mountain according to the Sichuan Mountaineering Association.
Most of the upper part of the body was buried in snow and rescuers could not properly identify the body and had to return to a camp at a scenic zone on Genyen Mountain. They would confirm the body in the next few days. The luggage of the two U.S. missing climbers was found by rescuers at a remote village in Lamaya Town near Genyen Mountain during door-to-door inquiries by rescuers last Friday.
Genyen Mountain is the third highest peak in Sichuan and is 6, 204 meter high. Fifty-two years old Charlie Fowler and thirty-nine years old Christine Boskoff who are both U.S. climbers have been reported missing since early November after failing to return home on December 7.
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