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Searchers comb the Everest KATHMANDU, Aug 6 (AFP) - A 22-member rescue team has joined search efforts for a US hiker who disappeared near Mount Everest July 22, a trekking organisation said Friday. So far no trace has been found of 25-year-old Trevor Stokol who was reported missing on July 22 after disappearing with his dog in the Khumbu Glacier region near Mount Everest. "The search team comprising 22 members is combing the Khumbu Glacier for Stokol as he may have been trapped there," said the official of the Asian Trekking Organisation, one of Nepal's leading groups that organise treks. Last week, Stokol's parents hired a helicopter to fly over the Khumbhu region. An unknown number of Nepalese Sherpa guides have also been searching for him. "The search operation is continuing but so far we've heard nothing about Trevor," a US embassy official said Friday. "It might take a few days to get a clear picture what might have happened to him." Stokol's family have flown into the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, to coordinate the search. "We're desperately waiting to know about our son and we ask people in thearea to help track him," his father, Arnold Stokol, told a news conference earlier in the week in Kathmandu. Stokol said it was possible his son became "disoriented as a result of altitude sickness or hypothermia and could be wandering." |
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