Hunt for missing five after avalanche

MORE than 150 rescue workers and trained dogs began scaling Utah’s treacherous back country yesterday to continue the search for as many as five people feared buried by a massive avalanche.

The amount of snow forced down the mountain by Friday’s slide - up to 30 feet deep at some points - has forced authorities to count the potential victims by matching eyewitness accounts of the avalanche to a list of skiers thought to be in the area at the time.