Official: Recovering fallen climbers too dangerous
Source: AP-Excite
By RACHEL LA CORTE and PHUONG LE
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Rescuers likely know the final resting place of six climbers who set out last week to attempt one of the most technical and physically grueling routes to the peak of Mount Rainier in Washington state.
But the danger of recovering the bodies of the two guides and four climbers believed to have fallen 3,300 feet from their last known location is too great, park officials say.
"People are very understanding that we cannot risk another life at this point," Patti Wold, a Mount Rainier National Park spokeswoman, said Sunday.
The climbers were last heard from at 6 p.m. Wednesday when the guides checked in with their Seattle-based company, Alpine Ascents International, by satellite phone. The group failed to return Friday as planned.
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Mount Rainier is seen from the road to Paradise Visitor Center at Mount Rainier National Park on Sunday, June 1, 2014. Six climbers are presumed dead after officials say they likely fell thousands of feet in the worst alpine accident on the mountain in decades. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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sad. 
Rainier is a beautiful mountain, but it's also dangerously unstable.
