The Japanese government hasn't taken decisive action to restimulate an economy and banking system that is teetering on a crevasse.
Mr Legate lost his footing while seeking to fix ropes and fell about 200 metres (655 feet) into a crevasse, the Nepalese ministry said.
At the 1.2-mile point, Fridjon stands at the edge of a cave-like crevasse, gripping each hiker in turn as they peer into the pitch-black hole.
One climber, Ogi, survived the incident after he was swept into a mountain crevasse and was able to climb out, sustaining a minor hand injury, officials said.
During one stretch of the climb, he had to negotiate a narrow 300-yard ledge, with a steep wall on one side and a 2, 000-foot crevasse on the other.
"During the search, NPS mountaineering ranger Tucker Chenoweth descended into the same crevasse that the survivor Hitoshi Ogi had fallen into during the avalanche, " the parks service said.
Only a ski strap saved his life when he once fell over the edge of a polar crevasse, and he has abandoned far more expeditions than he has completed.
His family first learned of his disappearance on Thursday and a day later they were informed that his body had been discovered in a crevasse by one of his climbing partners.
My wife discovered a 2ft wide crevasse that worked a cool water massage into her back and, more accidently, a chute we rode by leaning way back and letting the water pick us up.
The campus has its jocks, stoners, and poets, but what it is famous for are budding entrepreneurs, engineers, and computer aces hoping to make their fortune in one crevasse or another of Silicon Valley.
I'm glad I've stuck to my one-cup-of-coffee rule: I'm wearing ski bibs, a climbing harness (in case I need to be fished out of a crevasse) and a high-tech avalanche pack that can inflate with one tug, turning me into a human bouncy castle.
Compared to the early polar explorers of the 1900s, Fiennes's team will benefit from some innovative equipment, including boots with electrically-heated insoles, battery-powered heated clothing, radar to spot dangerous crevasse fields and a specially designed breathing apparatus to enable them to survive at temperatures that will regularly reach -70 degrees Celsius and perhaps even lower.
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