Elbrus: search for missing Novosibirsk snowboarder continues
16 June 2008, 15:36
NALCHIK, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Elbrus rescuers are searching for a Novosibirsk snowboarder who got missing at the altitude of about 4,500 meters on Pastukhov Cliffs on June 13.
His name is Alexei Tkachenko, born in 1976.
“Twenty-eight rescuers of the Elbrus territorial unit are searching the terrain. The weather is good,” press secretary of the Kabardino-Balkaria department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass on Sunday.