Missing Mount Ciremai climbers found alive
| Tue, 01/05/2010 1:35 PM
CIREBON: Five climbers who went missing Friday during a hike on Mount Ciremai in West Java were found alive Monday by a search and rescue team.
The climbers were identified as 24-year-old Maskon, Wahyu, 15, Muhammad Nur, 23, Budiman, 29, and Mila, 19, from Gempol village in Cirebon, West Java.
"We found them alive at an elevation of 2,500 meters. Four of them had a fever," SAR team head Suyatno said Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
The SAR team evacuated the climbers to Linggarjati. - JP
