Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, August 14, 2002
Five University Students Missing in Mount Shisha Pagma
Five members of a Beijing University expedition went missing about six days ago when they were trying to conquer the 8,012-meter Mount Shisha Pagma in Tibet,a senior official from China's Mountaineering Federation (CMF) said on Tuesday.
Five members of a Beijing University expedition went missing about six days ago when they were trying to conquer the 8,012-meter Mount Shisha Pagma in Tibet,a senior official from China's Mountaineering Federation (CMF) said on Tuesday.
The five students were the first group of a 15-member expedition. They lost contact with the base camp and other groupsever since August 7, Wang Tiemin, vice president of the CMA, told Xinhua on Tuesday.
But Wang Tiemin didn't give the names of the five missing students.
Wang said the CMA had immediately sent rescue teams to Mount Shisha Pagma when it got the report.