Five members of a
Peking University
expedition went missing about six days ago when they were trying to
conquer the 8,012-meter Mount Shisha Pagma in Tibet, a senior
official from China's Mountaineering Federation (CMF) said on
Tuesday.
The five students were the first group of a 15-member expedition.
They lost contact with the base camp and other groups ever since
August 7, Wang Tiemin, vice president of the CMA, told Xinhua on
Tuesday.
But Wang Tiemin didn't give the names of the five missing
students.
Wang said the CMA had immediately sent rescue teams to Mount Shisha
Pagma when it got the report.
(
August 14, 2002)