Hazik Mushtaq Beigh was trekking in the Kolahoi Glacier area along with two of his friends when they fell in a
crevasse. Two of them were fatally injured, while Hazik suffered serious injuries and required immediate evacuation to a medical facility.
Our days of climbing are long and tiring and we are constantly alert for hidden
crevasses on the route.
They, however, managed to successfully navigate the five
crevasses on their way up and down the mountain.
It is a steep part of the glacier regularly moving with
crevasses hundreds of metres deep.
Australian Antarctic Division said in a statement Tuesday that the pilot fell 20 meters (66 feet) into the
crevasse after landing on a remote ice shelf 104 miles (167 kilometers) northeast of Australia's Davis Station late Monday.
Thomas Fountain was the climber who fell into the
crevasse. Alison Fountain has been able to communicate with searchers via text message.
These must be sniffer dogs trained to seek out men fallen into
crevasse or buried beneath the snow.
Tonight, Dale decides to follow in his father's footsteps - not into an icy
crevasse, thankfully, but into the potato van business.
ANSWERS: 1 Arabic (qahwa); 2 Watch With Mother; 3 High blood pressure; 4 Abraham Lincoln; 5 Roy Rogers; 6 The Mediterranean; 7 The Queen (as Queen of Canada); 8 Margaret Thatcher; 9 A
crevasse; 10 Charlotte's Web.
Four Japanese climbers swept into a
crevasse by an avalanche are among 120 people to have died on Alaska's Mount McKinley, and 44 the number of bodies remaining on North America's tallest mountain.