Swiss rescue teams held out hope Wednesday that there was still a chance of finding a German billionaire alive even though he has been missing in the Alps for days, but admitted the likelihood of his survival was diminishing rapidly. The search was complicated by bad weather — and had to be temporarily broken off on the Italian side — and by the fact it was not known specifically where Haub went missing, Truffer said. Haub was skiing on his own in an area with glaciers and could have fallen into a crevasse, said Bruno Jelk, an experienced mountain rescue expert based in Zermatt. "The big problem is it's not known specifically where he went missing," Jelk told The Associated Press by phone. Tengelmann spokeswoman Sieglinde Schuchardt told the AP that Haub was an experienced skier and mountaineer and that the company was in contact with Swiss authorities.

Source: ABC News April 11, 2018 15:33 UTC