Editor’s Note: On December 4, 2006, the Colorado climbers Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff missed a return flight to the United States from China. They had traveled to the Sichuan Province of China (Tibet) to trek and explore the area’s rugged peaks. Those who knew these tough, battle-hardened alpinists also knew better than to fear the worst — both, after all, had survived untold scrapes. Friends and climbers mounted a heroic search effort, funneling funds from the United States and elsewhere to on-the-ground searchers in Asia and narrowing the focus to the Genyen region. On December 27, searchers found a body buried in the snow at 5,300 meters, about three hours above the Lenggu Monastery. The following day it was confirmed to be that of Charlie Fowler, 52 at the time of his passing, believed swept away in an avalanche. Boskoff, meanwhile, remains missing.