Searchers Find Body of Japanese Adventurer
An Arctic search team has found the frozen body of a Japanese adventurer who scaled some of the world’s highest peaks and crossed the Sahara Desert, his support group said.
The six-member volunteer team, based in Resolute in Canada’s Northwest Territories, discovered the body of Hyoichi Kohno near his sled Wednesday, said Toji Goto, director of Kohno’s Japanese-based expedition office.
Kohno, 43, was just two months into a planned six-year trek through the Arctic to western Japan. He was believed to have fallen into thin ice floes while skiing across the Arctic Ocean.
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