Searchers locate body of missing hiker.

From: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) | Date: August 26, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: S.L. Wykes

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Searchers found the body Thursday morning of Kathleen Namphy, a breast cancer survivor and honored Stanford University lecturer last seen Sunday near the summit of Iran's tallest mountain.

But the location of Namphy's body, a few thousand feet down the mountain from where she was last seen alive, has only deepened the mystery of her death.

The only people who could explain how she got there _ a group of Irania...

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