WORLD BRIEFING / CHINA
The body of an American mountain climber has been found after an avalanche in an isolated part of central China, the official New China News Agency said.
Rescue workers were still searching for two other American members of the group who were missing on 24,790-foot Mt. Gongga in Sichuan province, Li Zhixin, an official with the Chinese Mountaineering Assn., told the news agency.
The report did not identify whose body had been found.
Wade Johnson, 24, of Arden Hills, Minn., and Micah Dash and Jonny Copp of Boulder, Colo., were last heard from May 20 at the base camp of Mt. Edgar, a peak of Mt. Gongga, according to an e-mail his parents sent to friends.
They had been scheduled to leave Tuesday, flying out of Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital, but missed the flight.
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