TEHERAN, Iran, Feb. 10 (AP) —Thousands of Iranian villagers were unaccounted for today after a week‐long blizzard that dumped 10 to 26 feet of snow in outlying areas after four years of drought.

Newspapers put the number of missing at 6,000.

Among them is an American woman college student and two men companions who went mountain climbing near Teheran Monday.

A five‐man team that set out to search for them on Tuesday also has vanished. Officials said the mountain is covered with 39 inches of snow.

Neither the United States Embassy nor Aryamehr University in Teheran would identify the American student.