Search ends for Japanese climbers on Mount McKinley

In this Saturday photo provided by the National Park Service, rescuers search for four Japanese climbers on Alaska's Mount McKinley. The National Park Service says it has permanently suspended efforts to recover the bodies of the four climbers killed in an avalanche.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shallow avalanche on Alaska’s Mount McKinley may not have killed four Japanese climbers, but the slide pushed them into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep, the National Park Service said Sunday.

Spokeswoman Kris Fister said Sunday from Talkeetna t...

Published: 06/18/2012