NASA engineer flies his Japanese rescuers to L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Leonard Efron (R), a senior NASA engineer, poses with Keiko Asano (C) and Kazuhito Hachiya (L) both from Chiba Prefecture, at a television station on a Los Angeles suburb July 6. He has paid the flight expenses to bring the two Japanese mountain climbers to Los Angeles. Efron fell about 100 meters while descending Mt. Fuji last year and sustained serious injuries before Asano and Hachiya came to his rescue.

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