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Rescue efforts underway for missing climbers near avalanche site in Alaska

  • Two mountain climbers, Eli Michel and Nafiun Awal, are missing in Denali National Park and Preserve
  • Rescue crews have found their unattended tent and tracks leading to an avalanche zone
  • Ground searches are limited due to dangerous terrain, so aerial searches are focused on the avalanche runout area
  • The climbers last communicated Friday morning and were attempting to climb Moose's Tooth, a 10,300-foot mountain
  • Michel and Awal have been missing since disappearing in the area of a recent avalanche
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