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June 27, 2002
LIMA, Peru - Police said Thursday they found the body of an American mountain climber caught in an avalanche and buried in a 200-foot (60-meter) crevasse on Peru's highest peak.
Searchers were still combing the area for the bodies of two other Americans who vanished Monday in the avalanche on Huascaran mountain, said Luis Garate, head of Peru's high-mountain rescue unit.
The body found Wednesday was badly mangled and caked in snow and ice, preventing police from identifying it, Garate said. The other two climbers are feared dead, he said.
Garate identified the three climbers as William Stampfl, 40, Matthew Richardson, 41, and Steve Erskine, 52.
Huascaran, which soars to 22,334 feet (6,807 meters), attracts climbers from around the world.
Three Austrian men and one German were killed in an avalanche on the towering peak on June 3.
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