NEW: 4 climbers rescued from Mount Rainier after being stranded for days
Four climbers were rescued after being stranded on Mount Rainier in Washington state for days.
The four climbers -- Yevgeniy Krasnitskiy, Ruslan Khasbulatov, Vasily Aushev and Kostya"Constantine" Toporov -- started climbing Mount Rainier in Washington on May 31, according to a park press notice, but high winds forced them to stop on the Liberty Ridge route. The winds had blown the climbers' tent and equipment away, so rescuers attempted to drop supplies to them. However, because of the winds, the supplies were dropped 1,500 feet below the climbers.
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