지난 10월31일(일요일) Mt, Baldy에서

19세 청년이 조난  

11월8일 월요일 현재까지 구조수색중입니다.

겨울철 산행 시 철저한 준비로 안전한 산행을 합시다.

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Bad Weather Prevents Search For Missing Hiker
Hiker Took Taxi To Base Of Ski Area Possibly On Whim

POSTED: 5:06 pm PST November 5, 2004
UPDATED: 10:08 am PST November 8, 2004

CLAREMONT, Calif. -- Cloudy conditions Monday morning prevented air crews from resuming the search for a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man who disappeared while hiking on Mount Baldy eight days ago.




The ground search for Evgeniy Lushevskiy was called off last night and a command post on the mountain was dismantled.

"It's still cloudy, and we have to wait for weather conditions to clear," Chip Patterson of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said this morning. "There will be no further ground search."

From Friday until Sunday, teams searched for Lushevskiy, who has been missing for a week, in snow and ice near the 10,000-foot summit of Mount Baldy.

He was in the Southland to visit a friend attending Harvey Mudd College in Claremont when he told family members that he intended to take a hike on the mountain Oct. 31.

He was reported missing the following day, but it was not until Thursday that investigators developed information indicating the Lushevskiy had actually gone to area, Claremont police Sgt. John Costa said.

Possibly on a whim, he took a taxi to the base of the ski area at 6,500 feet, according to NBC4.

He arrived after 5 p.m. when the ski lift had already closed.

"Basically, he wanted to know if we could start the lifts up and give him a ride," ski area President Pete Olson, who may have been the last person to see Lushevskiy, told the TV station.

His black backpack was found Saturday morning on the north side of the mountain, said Cindy Beavers of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The find indicated he had climbed more than 3,000 feet to near the summit.

A video camera was found in the backpack, "which showed he did have a fire at some point," Peterson told the TV station.

The searchers who found the backpack reported that it "appeared to have fallen from a higher ridge line," Beavers said. But authorities "did not find fresh tracks that would lead them in any specific direction," she said. Lushevskiy, who was clad in a windbreaker and jogging pants, was not equipped for the sub-freezing conditions that have been reported on the mountain during nighttime hours.

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