Team resumes search for Fossett
A 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers fanned out on foot Monday in rugged mountains on the Nevada-California border, hoping to find the body of multimillionaire adventurer, Steve Fossett.
The first day’s efforts yielded some cans, empty cigarette packs and other debris but no sign of the missing 63-year-old Fossett.
Fossett was declared legally dead in February, five months after he was last seen taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch owned by hotel magnate Barron Hilton.
The search team, led by Canadian geologist and adventure racer Simon Donato, is focusing on remote, wooded areas in the Sweetwater Mountains and Bodie Hills, near where Fossett was last seen.
The areas could conceal wreckage not visible to the many private and military planes that searched last year.
Fossett gained worldwide fame for his scores of attempts and successes in setting records in high-tech balloons, gliders, jets and boats.
In 2002, he became the first person to circle the world solo in a balloon.
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