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The body of an American mountain climber has been
found after an avalanche in an isolated part of southwestern China,
the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

      Rescue workers were still searching for two other American
members of the group who went missing on Mount Gongga in Sichuan
province.


      The report did not identify whose body had been found.


      Twenty-four-year-old Wade Johnson of Arden Hills, Minnesota, and
Micah Dash and Jonny Copp of Boulder, Colo., were last heard from
May 20 at the base camp of Mount Edgar, a peak of Mount Gongga.


      They were scheduled to fly Tuesday out of Chengdu, Sichuan's
capital, but missed the flight.

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The body of an American mountain climber has been
found after an avalanche in an isolated part of southwestern China,
the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.


Climber's body found in China may be Arden Hills man

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