Fund to aid in search for missing hiker
08:08 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2005
From Staff Reports
The family of a Dallas man missing near Mount Everest has established a fund to offset some of the expense associated with the extensive search, according to the organization helping organize the effort.
Trevor Stokol, 25, was last seen July 22 after he left the base camp on what was to be a brief hike to take photographs the mountain. After he did not return, his traveling companion and others began looking for him, then reported his disappearance to U.S. authorities in Kathmandu, Nepal, his mother, Barbara Stokol, has told The Dallas Morning News.
After eight months of travel across India and Southeast Asia, Trevor Stokol was days away from returning to North Texas to enter the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He is a 2002 graduate of Emory University.
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More information on Trevor Stokol and the fund
Stokol?s father, Richardson optometrist Arnold Stokol, and other family members have traveled to Nepal to look for him.
At the request of Stokol?s family, the 1st Special Response Group, a nonprofit, international search and rescue team based in California, has become involved in coordinating the search efforts.
Tax-deductible donations may be made to 1SRG, Trevor Stokol Fund, P.O. Box 230, Moffett Field, Calif., 94035.
