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| Rescuers try to find skiers stuck on Alaska glacier for days |
Rescuers try to find skiers stuck on Alaska glacier for days
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Searchers on Monday hoped to acquisition two skiers who accept been ashore on an Alaska berg for three canicule and were affected to dig snow caves afterwards barbaric wind and abundant snow disconnected their tent.The acclimate austere abundant to acquiesce an Alaska Air National Guard helicopter to acreage at the abject of Bear Glacier. The aggregation was cat-and-mouse for a breach in alarming snow and low clouds to fly college up the abundance to attending for the pair.
Jennifer Neyman, 36, and Christopher Hanna, 45, both of Soldotna, accept been abandoned back Friday in the Harding Ice Acreage on the Kenai Peninsula, south of Anchorage.
An aeroplane alone them off for a day cruise in the better ice acreage absolutely aural U.S. boundaries and could not acknowledgment that night because of abhorrent weather.
Neyman and Hanna were able to acquaint with a cellphone and by digital argument messages. They told accompany they spent the aboriginal night in the covering they agitated until wind and snow destroyed it Saturday.
They dug snow caves for apartment but appear they were active low on provisions.
Storms kept abroad rescuers from two agencies who approved to ability the ice acreage Sunday.
The Air National Guard was aggravating afresh Monday with a Pave Hawk helicopter accustomed four rescuers and a C-130 airplane.
Satellite coordinates adumbrated Neyman and Hanna were on 13-mile-long Bear Berg at an acclivity of about 4,300 feet.
Reaching the skiers by arena was not accessible because of the acclimate and terrain, admiral said.
The Harding Ice Acreage covers 700 aboveboard afar of Alaska's Kenai Mountains in berg ice, according to the National Park Service. It is home to added than 30 glaciers.
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