Pictures of the Day: Friday, Dec. 05, 2008

A helicopter prepares to rescue one of two Japanese climbers who had been stranded for six days near the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand. The other climber died just hours before rescuers reached them.
John Kirk-Anderson / The Christchurch Press / Reuters

Frigid Ordeal

A helicopter prepares to rescue one of two Japanese climbers who had been stranded for six days near the summit of Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand. The other climber died just hours before rescuers reached them.