The World - News from Aug. 15, 1986

An American photographer died of severe altitude sickness during a Sino-American expedition on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. David Shippee, 29, of Boise, Ida., died Aug. 3 and was buried beside the Tuotuo River, a tributary of the Yangtze. Shippee, a staff photographer on leave from the Idaho Statesman newspaper, had been hired to document the trip from the Yangtze’s source down river 2,000 miles to Yibin in Sichuan province. He first became ill at an altitude of 14,000 feet. Death was attributed to altitude sickness complicated by fluid in the lungs.