BUDDHIST RITES MARK CREMATION OF CLIMBERS IN QUIET YUKON VALLEY
In a lonely spot far up a Yukon mountain valley, six young Japanese Alpine climbers Sunday performed the traditional Buddhist cremation ceremony for the bodies of two companions lost in an avalanche in the St. Elias range three weeks before.
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