1.   Despite media praises of the high-tech gadget, emergency workers later stated the helicopter evacuation could have been avoided had the climbing party used basic mountaineering technique.

2.   No climbing parties were registered.

3.   Near the summit, he became disoriented by high altitude sickness, then separated from his climbing party in an attempt to reach lower elevations.

4.   Pierce, a firefighter, and two members of his climbing party fell into the crevasse along with the six climbers who slammed into them.

5.   Steven was last seen by the five members of his climbing party.

6.   The other climbing party in the area found them Monday afternoon and notified authorities by radio.

7.   There were six people assisting the climbing party last night -- two rescue ranger and four private guides, authorities said.

8.   They made a base camp, and after several days began their ascent, maintaining radio contact with another climbing party in the area.

9.   A fifth Austrian also part of the climbing party survived because he was protected by a rock formation that blocked the avalanche.

10.   The bones, recovered by police last Friday after being discovered by a climbing party several days earlier, have since been cremated.