BRIDGEPORT, Calif. — The search for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished in September after taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch, is set to resume today in mountains on the California-Nevada line.
A 10-member team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers is headed by Simon Donato, a Canadian geologist whose avocation is adventure racing. He is focusing on remote, wooded areas near where the 63-year-old Fossett was last seen — areas that could have concealed wreckage from the crews of the private and military planes that searched last year.
“Whether we luck out and find the wreckage or not, at least our tracks will be preserved so that in the future, if someone wants to give this a try, they’ll know where we already were and they can go to the next mountain range over,” Donato said.
