Russian rescue teams reached a group of Israeli mountain climbers missing in Siberia. The 14 Israelis and 11 Russian guides had been lost since Sunday. During a heavy snowfall on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the group took shelter in a village, where they waited for the storm to pass.
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