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When are you going to write a six-page article flanked with color pictures of the Palestinian victims kicked out by force from their villages to make way for these illegal and illegitimate outposts? Ahmed Said, VIRGINIA BEACH...
...possibly his wrist. Unable to get him down unassisted, his climbing partner, Alvaro Novellón, left Pérez with supplies and went for help. But a combination of bureaucracy, complicated logistics and poor weather impeded search efforts, and it wasn't until Aug. 14, a full six days after the pair's climbing club first received word of the accident, that a rescue operation began. Two days later, the rescue attempt was called off due to bad weather and the difficulties involved in climbing an almost unclimbable mountain in the hopes of finding Pérez alive...
...when Pérez fell. Novallón left him bivouacked with food, a gas stove and a sleeping bag, as well as a realistic assessment of how long it might take for help to come. "Oscar knew it would take six or seven days for a rescue team to reach him," says Alfonso Uriel, spokesman for Peña Guara, the Huesca climbing club that has been organizing the effort. "So psychologically, he's prepared. He knows not to give up hope after just a couple of days." (Read "Blind to Failure," the story of a sightless mountaineer...
...Campbell, who himself has climbed four Himalayan peaks, says he's worried for everyone involved: "Fabrizio is putting himself at great risk. Pérez, if he's a strong young climber, might survive. But someone who has been trapped at 6,000 meters for five or six nights is probably slowly dying." (See pictures of triumph and tragedy on the world's highest mountain, Everest...
...Hundreds like him are also still waiting outside Cishan's classrooms. "I couldn't sleep all week. I had no idea how my family is doing," says Chen Hsiu-lan, a farmer who was also stranded in the mountains for six days until an excavator cleared the roads enough for her to leave her home. Now she's waiting at the school for her older brother...