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<br><font size=2 color=#000003 face="Verdana">24June2003</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#000003 face="Verdana">3July2003</font>
<br>liza</font><font size=3 color=#000c00 face="Verdana">: Me and my husband were guiding on the mountain the day that happened, the weather was not very good in the morning, but still o.k. for climbing, but in the afternoon it turned out very bad, with strong wind and snow falling. Most of the groups who reached the summit that day came back later than usual, because of bad sight on the way down. As I heared, the two Canadians left their group and their guide (even though they were not supposed to do so) and got to the Western summit, earlier than everybody else. Then,<br>
they decided to climb the other (Eastern) summit, and they were also seen on the way down by another guide who was descendign from the Eastern summit. What happened then nobody knows, their guide, a good friend of mine, was waiting for them in the so called saddle, they were supposed to get down there but probably<br>
did not, but got lost somewhere in the fog. The whole night it was very windy and snowing, the same on the next 2 days. They might have gone down on any other side of the volcano from where it takes them about 3-7 days to get out to the next villages. So there is still some hope left. Today (june 26th) I saw a helicopter flying on Elbrus, in search for them, but the weather is still to windy to start any air-supported rescue. I was on the top today and could not see any traces of them being somewhere around ...</font>
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