lead story on CNN: U.S. professor disappears during Japan volcano hike

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/japan.missing.professor/index.html

By Jason Hanna
CNN

(CNN) -- Teams in southern Japan are searching for an award-winning U.S. poet and college professor who failed to return from a hike to a volcano, his university said Thursday.
Craig Arnold was doing research for a poetry and essay book on volcanoes, a colleague said.

Craig Arnold, a 41-year-old assistant professor at the University of Wyoming, did not return from his Monday hike to a volcano on Kuchinoerabujima, a small island just west of Yakushima, the school said.

"The only clues that have found were indications that he had begun the ascent -- footprints on the trail," said Peter Parolin, head of the university's English department, citing Arnold's family.

Arnold, a creative writing professor, was doing research for a poetry and essay book he is writing about volcanoes, Parolin said. See where island is located »

A team of 60 people, with helicopters and search dogs, is looking for Arnold, according to the school. Japanese authorities have agreed to continue the search through Sunday, the university said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/japan.missing.professor/index.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Good luck prof