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Search for Fossett resumes

(via The Associated Press) · July 13, 2008 · 10:54 AM

The Associated Press reports the hunt for multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who vanished in September after taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch, resumes Monday as a team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers starts hiking through rugged mountains on the California-Nevada border where he may have crashed.

The 10-member team is headed by Simon Donato, a Canadian geologist whose avocation is adventure racing through wilderness areas around the world. He's focusing on remote, wooded areas near where the 63-year-old Fossett was last seen — areas that could have hidden wreckage from the small air force of private and military planes that searched for Fossett last year.

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