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N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota State University professor believes he had an encounter with a Japanese climber who survived an avalanche on Mount McKinley that killed four others. Berlin Nelson says he encountered a Japanese man on the Alaska mountain the same day four Japanese climbers were swept into a crevasse by the avalanche and killed. He says the man’s tracks seemed to trace back to the avalanche, but the man indicated in broken English that he was resting but unharmed. Nelson learned later of the climbing deaths and the party’s lone survivor, 69-year-old Hitoshi Ogi, who climbed 60 feet out of the crevasse and eventually reached a camp. Nelson says it bothers him that he might have missed a chance to quickly call in a rescue party.