En svensk, Pierre Olsson, var i och klättrade tillsammans med en amerikansk kvinna i Pakistan. Hon försvann och bl a militär var ute och letade. Hon återfanns senare död, hon hade råkat komma i vägen för en lavin.
Nu verkar det som pakistanska myndigheter vill ha betalt för sökoperationerna, och håller fast Pierre Olsson som gisslan tills de fått betalt.
Är det någon som känner Pierre Olsson?
Följande meddelande fanns idag på Summitpost, med ett meddelande från Erica Kutchers familj:
"As many of you are probably already aware, Yosemite local Erica Kutcher perished last week near the Shipton Spire in Pakistan. There have been many threads on climbing bulletin boards; this morning a very sad message from Erica's family was posted on Supertopo. Please do what you can to alert your local media.
"Pierre Olsson, Erica Kutcher's climbing partner, seems to be held hostage by the Pakistanis in Islamabad. The Pakistanis are threatening him with detention and possible incarceration if $17,000+ and $6,000+ is not paid to Askari Aviations (a military helicopter service) and Blu Sky Tours, respectively. This position is outrageous and unconscionable. We know, as Americans, that if a Pakistani citizen went missing in the United States, whether it be in the Rockies, in Alaska, in the desert, in a state or national park, or a cornfield in Iowa, all stops would be pulled to find him using volunteer, local, state and national resources without cost to the lost Pakistani or his government.
Please contact any source (personal, media, political) you may have to stop this atrocity and enable Pierre to return home now. Please continue to pass this request along. Thank you... Erica Kutcher's Family on behalf of Pierre Olsson.
I am personally asking for anyone/everyone who reads this to please send it out to any one of the newspaper services local to you, or especially those from whom we had been reading updates about our Erica... Despite their loss and sense of grief, the Kutchers have shown us (once again) their generousity and compassion in focusing their attention away from their personal sadness and on the release of Pierre.
Please assist us in these efforts and we will keep you updated as to the situaton...
Thank you"
Nu verkar det som pakistanska myndigheter vill ha betalt för sökoperationerna, och håller fast Pierre Olsson som gisslan tills de fått betalt.
Är det någon som känner Pierre Olsson?
Följande meddelande fanns idag på Summitpost, med ett meddelande från Erica Kutchers familj:
"As many of you are probably already aware, Yosemite local Erica Kutcher perished last week near the Shipton Spire in Pakistan. There have been many threads on climbing bulletin boards; this morning a very sad message from Erica's family was posted on Supertopo. Please do what you can to alert your local media.
"Pierre Olsson, Erica Kutcher's climbing partner, seems to be held hostage by the Pakistanis in Islamabad. The Pakistanis are threatening him with detention and possible incarceration if $17,000+ and $6,000+ is not paid to Askari Aviations (a military helicopter service) and Blu Sky Tours, respectively. This position is outrageous and unconscionable. We know, as Americans, that if a Pakistani citizen went missing in the United States, whether it be in the Rockies, in Alaska, in the desert, in a state or national park, or a cornfield in Iowa, all stops would be pulled to find him using volunteer, local, state and national resources without cost to the lost Pakistani or his government.
Please contact any source (personal, media, political) you may have to stop this atrocity and enable Pierre to return home now. Please continue to pass this request along. Thank you... Erica Kutcher's Family on behalf of Pierre Olsson.
I am personally asking for anyone/everyone who reads this to please send it out to any one of the newspaper services local to you, or especially those from whom we had been reading updates about our Erica... Despite their loss and sense of grief, the Kutchers have shown us (once again) their generousity and compassion in focusing their attention away from their personal sadness and on the release of Pierre.
Please assist us in these efforts and we will keep you updated as to the situaton...
Thank you"
