Boskoff overdue in China

[smithisheaven]

Any1 heard any good news on Boskoff in China? All I heard was overdue and missing. Hope thats not the case.

[TrogdortheBurninator]

Alpinist.com has three little blurbs up now. The most recent one looks at their itinerary while in china. Some interesting stuff, but nothing leading much closer to finding them.

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP18/newswire-fowler-boskoff-beckey

[Weekend_Climberz]

Oh shit, I didn't realize that they were going for Fred's Peak. That's kinda eery

[scratchandsniff]

Nothing more erie or scary than climbing peaks in the "Kung Pao" range while the locals are having a dog shortage.

[sk]

hope they turn up soon.

[jlamo]

Also see this...

http://fowlerboskoff.blogspot.com/

[Dechristo]

From an email:

 

Make your web site or blog a donation portal

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The push is on and time is of the essence to find Charlie and Chris. Mountain Fund, working with MountainFilm.org is requesting that anyone with a web site or blog please help us raise funds to conduct this search. If you do have a web site or blog, please scroll to the end of this page where you will find directions on how to get the html code that you can cut and paste on to your web site. This code will create a donation button that will allow visitors to your site to instantly make a donation to the search effort.

 

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The Fowler-Boskoff Search Fund Routing Code - 121000248.

As of December 14, 2006, Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff are 10 days overdue from their 2- month trip to China. Charlie was a Mountainfilm Board Member for almost a decade and is currently on the Advisory Board. He is also an original member of the Telluride Mountain Club and was a Founding Board Member of the Horizon Program. Christine is the owner of Seattle-based Mountain Madness and was a featured speaker at Mountainfilm 2001 and 2006. Charlie is scheduled to be a speaker for the 2007 Festival’s Eiger-inspired sub-theme due to his solo of the Direct Route of the Eiger North Face in 1992. Both have homes in Norwood.

 

Donations are urgently needed so the Fowler-Boskoff Search Fund can immediately commit funds to continue and expand the search effort. An initial fundraising target of $75,000.00 has been established. In order to maintain the momentum, Mountainfilm in Telluride has opened a new account under its non-profit umbrella to accept tax deductible donations for the Fowler-Boskoff search effort.

 

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The html code to create a donation portal on your web site will create a button that looks like the one below.

 

If you are willing to add this to your site, e-mail mtnfund@mountainfund.org.

 

IMPORTANT

 

make the subject of your e mail HTML CODE and my e-mail will send the code automatically to you.

 

 

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Edited December 22, 2006 by Dechristo

[cj001f]

See also:

http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/617921/page/5#Post617921

[treknclime]

Any news?

[pindude]

Scroll down on this link previously posted, toward the end of the timeline. Nothing real yet. Seems the word is starting to get out in China. "Field teams," including a CNN crew, are making some progress. But finding further info, and C&C, will take time. Blessings to all involved in the search.

 

Also see this...

http://fowlerboskoff.blogspot.com/

[dmuja]

Just thought I'd post a link update. Seems like theyve narrowed the search down to one mountain. Gotta take everything you read with a grain of salt of coarse. The bottom link (as posted above aready) is probly the best source for info at this point. Lets hope for the best.

 

 

 

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=300872&type=National

 

 

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-12/22/content_765799.htm

 

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_122506WABchinamissingclimbersKC.4474228a.html

 

 

http://fowlerboskoff.blogspot.com/

[sobo]

MSNBC news wire

[jimlup]

Sad news indeed! My condolences to everyone at Mountain Madness.

It's been a bad year all around.

[tbunch]

Aw, dammit! What a great company and a bunch of great people to have such a rotten couple of years.

 

[scot'teryx]

This sucks. I am very sad for her family and friends. I worked PT for her for almost a year. Good company, but she was the one that made it so great.