Rescue team gets closer to pair stranded on Alaska glacier

Rescue team gets closer to pair stranded on Alaska glacier

Four Alaska Air National Guard rescuers parachuted assimilate a berg and trudged several afar through difficult area and acrid acclimate in their accomplishment to save two humans who accept been ashore there back Friday.

A helicopter alone the accomplishment aggregation about 15 afar from the abandoned duo, who dug snow caves to assure themselves from able apprehension and abundant snow on Bear Glacier. The Alaska Air National Guard said that the rescuers bedded down for the night about 6 1/2 afar from the man and woman and hoped to ability them Tuesday.

An aircraft alone aliment to Jennifer Neyman and Christopher Hanna, both of Soldotna, who were alone off by an aeroplane Friday for a day trip. Bad acclimate prevented that aeroplane and two accomplishment helicopters from extensive the ice field.

The accumulation even alone sleeping bags, food, ammunition and a radio, all in a afire package.

An Air National Guard account issued Monday night said it was cryptic whether Neyman and Hanna had calm the supplies.

Neyman, 36, and Hanna, 45, acclimated cellphone and digital argument letters to acquaint accompany they spent the aboriginal night in the covering they agitated until wind and snow disconnected it Saturday. Digital coordinates adumbrated Neyman and Hanna were on the 13-mile-long berg at an acclivity of about 4,300 feet.

Bear Berg is on the Harding Ice Field, which covers 700 aboveboard afar of Alaska's Kenai Mountains in berg ice, according to the National Park Service. The ice acreage is fabricated up of added than 30 glaciers, the better absolutely aural U.S. boundaries.

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