Rescuers Find the Bodies of 10 Climbers in Ecuador
<i> Reuters</i>
QUITO, Ecuador —
Rescue teams Wednesday located the bodies of all 10 mountain climbers buried in an avalanche on Ecuador’s highest peak a week ago, said Pablo Cardenas, chief of the rescue efforts.
The climbers--six of them French, three Ecuadorean and one Swiss--were buried near the summit when an avalanche thundered down Mt. Chimborazo. The 20,500-foot mountain sits 125 miles south of Quito.
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