1 saved after avalanche sweeps away climbers in Nagano

OMACHI, Japan - A police helicopter searches the site of an avalanche on the 2,821-meter Mt. Harinokidake in Nagano Prefecture, where four mountaineers went missing on May 1. One climber has been rescued but the three others remain to be accounted for, police said.

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