11/08/2005
Two climbers fail to return following blizzard
Hopes are fading for two climbers believed to have been caught in a ferocious blizzard in Tajikistan.
Simon Spencer-Jones, from Inverness-shire, who graduated in medicine at Bristol University this year and Ian Hatcher, a Canadian and another Bristol University graduate, have not been seen since Wednesday, July 13. Their families say that they have all but given up hope of hearing from the two men again.
Both experienced mountaineers, and both aged 26, they are feared to have been caught by a severe blizzard that dumped around three feet of snow in the remote Pamirs region, which borders China and Afghanistan in less than two days.
The two climbers failed to make a rendezvous with a party of mountaineers after the blizzard and despite air and ground searches in the area of the Fedchenko glacier and the 22,800 ft Revolution peak, where they are thought to have been, there has been no sign of them.
Both are former members of the University of Bristol mountaineering club and had been with a party of six other former members of the club.
The two had received a grant from the Everest Mountaineering Foundation, which assists suitably qualified and experienced mountaineers to visit the region.
(SP/KMcA)
Simon Spencer-Jones, from Inverness-shire, who graduated in medicine at Bristol University this year and Ian Hatcher, a Canadian and another Bristol University graduate, have not been seen since Wednesday, July 13. Their families say that they have all but given up hope of hearing from the two men again.
Both experienced mountaineers, and both aged 26, they are feared to have been caught by a severe blizzard that dumped around three feet of snow in the remote Pamirs region, which borders China and Afghanistan in less than two days.
The two climbers failed to make a rendezvous with a party of mountaineers after the blizzard and despite air and ground searches in the area of the Fedchenko glacier and the 22,800 ft Revolution peak, where they are thought to have been, there has been no sign of them.
Both are former members of the University of Bristol mountaineering club and had been with a party of six other former members of the club.
The two had received a grant from the Everest Mountaineering Foundation, which assists suitably qualified and experienced mountaineers to visit the region.
(SP/KMcA)
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