A mountain climbing organization in Telluride is raising money to aid in the search for two world-class climbers from Norwood who disappeared while climbing mountains in China.
Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff were on a two-month climbing trip when they were last heard from after a first ascent of previously unclimbed 19,094-foot Yala Peak.
Boskoff had e-mailed associates Nov. 8 at a Seattle-based company she owns called Mountain Madness. She wrote that the two planned to be back in Internet contact in two weeks. They were due to return to Denver on Dec. 4.
“Fowler is known for pioneering routes in the Tetons and many other places around the world,” said Angus Theurmer Jr., a mountaineer and co-editor of the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
Fowler was a board member of Mountainfilm in Telluride for the past decade and serves on the advisory board of that organization. He is scheduled to be a speaker at the 2007 Mountainfilm festival.
Boskoff, who is considered one of the world’s top female high-altitude climbers, was a featured speaker at Mountainfilm in 2001 and 2006.
Climbers in the United States and Sichuan province, China, have organized searches for the two.
Mountainfilm is collecting funds to contribute to those searches.
