1.   Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane.

2.   Marks, summoned from the island of Peleliu, piloted the first rescue plane to arrive.

3.   A Portuguese Navy frigate, an Air Force rescue plane and six passing ships were searching for seven other missing seamen.

4.   A Portuguese Navy frigate and an Air Force rescue plane had joined a group of ships in the area searching for the missing seamen, he said.

5.   Air force spokesman Wing Cmdr. Ian Pearson said the rescue plane would drop inflatable rafts, radios and emergency supplies.

6.   Air Force rescue planes scoured the Himalayan expanse late Monday to survey possible access routes.

7.   Air Force rescue planes scoured the Himalayan expanse late Monday to survey the devastation and possible access routes to villages after relief trucks were blocked by landslides.

8.   Air Force rescue planes were placed on standby after the first distress call, she said.

9.   Australian air force rescue planes found Dubois on Monday night, standing on the hull of his overturned yacht.

10.   Australian and French officials were sending rescue planes to the spot.