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There is no question that Torp and his friends were tempting fate. They set out despite storm and avalanche warnings. During their sojourn, the skiers repeatedly heard the roar of snowslides letting loose. "It was sheer luck they didn't get caught in one," says Doug Bitterman, the avalanche forecaster who posted that day's warnings. Nearly three dozen avalanches rumbled through the area, posing an enormous risk to the rescuers...
DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...