Nation celebrates a quiet and traditional Easter

"Wet Monday" (Śmigus Dyngus) also passed in low key fashion, as compared to previous years. The worst incident involved a 16 year old girl who was taken to hospital in a critical state after being thrown into the River Dunaj. Meanwhile, in Spitsbergen in Norway, the search for a missing Polish mountain climber has brought no results. The search has been scaled down due to fading hopes of finding him alive. The missing man's friends claim that the chances for his survival are high, as he argues he is an experienced mountain climber. Rescuers suspect that the Pole could have been buried under snow or fallen into a cravass. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6; www.polskieradio.pl) A.F.