Beijing – The search for two Colorado climbers missing for more than a month has narrowed to a single mountain in southwestern China after their last known contact – a local driver – said they planned to climb the peak.
Christine Boskoff and Charlie Fow ler apparently took their climbing equipment and left their luggage with the driver, who dropped them off in a small, remote town not far from the Sichuan province border with Tibet on Nov. 11.
Boskoff and Fowler told him they would climb Genie Mountain, a 20,354-foot mountain that is also known as Genyen Peak, according to Liu Feng, a senior official with the Sichuan Mountaineering Association.
“The driver said he was supposed to meet them on Nov. 24 so they could pick up their bags, but they did not show up or call,” he said.
Boskoff, a top female climber, and Fowler, a well-known climber, guide and photographer, were reported missing after they failed to return to the United States on Dec. 4. Both are from Norwood.
Unlike the recent case of the missing climbers on Mount Hood in Oregon, the search has been complicated because the two did not leave detailed plans and rescuers initially did not even know which province to search.
A website set up by friends of the climbers to raise funds for the search said Boskoff’s and Fowler’s bags had been opened, and they had taken all of their climbing equipment with them.
