Vladimir Petlitsky was last seen in snow caves at 5800 on August 7th. He has a lot of high altitude experience and had plenty of food and fuel. He was planning to wait out the forecasted storm. Weather conditions have been brutal this season in the Tien Shan, no one made the summit of Pobeda. His son is making serious efforts to fly up to 5800 in a chopper before the base camp folds up for the season on 9/1. He is looking for any information about his father he can find.
The source/picture is here:
http://www.risk.ru/users/wesst2534/199451/
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Cheers
Bill