Swiss teams hold out hope of finding billionaire alive
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.
Karl-erivan Haub, the 58-year-old heir to the Tengelmann retail empire, was training for a ski mountaineering race when he disappeared on Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn peak, located on its southern border with Italy.
Haub was last seen on Saturday morning as he headed up a mountain lift with skis and a daypack, and was reported missing the following morning after he failed to show up at his hotel in Zermatt, said Valais canton (state) police spokesman Mathias Volken.