Chilean authorities were searching for a Canadian and a Swiss tourist missing after an avalanche that occurred while they were hiking in the country's south.
The tourists, whose names have not been released, arrived in Cochrane in the Aysen region of Chile's Patagonia on Friday. Cochrane police Capt Alvaro Herrera said yesterday that rescue officials have been flying over a hard-to-reach area near mount San Lorenzo.
Local Radio Santa Maria says the tourists were part of a crew of four people shooting a documentary, and they managed to alert authorities about the avalanche using a satellite phone.
Two other people in the group who were rescued told police that a wall of rocks and snow cascaded down the mount, trapping them.
