I don't believe the report is "inaccurate", more like "incomplete", could be that they haven't found the sixth canoeist.

So many questions left unanswered: how did the other survivor Andrei Pautov...survive? How far apart were the two survivors? Where the two survivors from the same raft?

Why didn't they STOP when the first raft capsized to attempt to find their fellow adventurer? Doesn't the fact that death has occurred from this adventure of theirs usually act like a 2-by-4 hitting one across the head to brighten up the internal light bulb to say "HEY! Maybe we need to rethink this", why did they press on?

I am puzzled and want to understand their logic maybe it'll make more sense to me then.

Jade, Harbor City,

Ian from Solihull - by inference, they simply haven't found the fourth man's body yet. Given the account of the river, it's a wonder they have found three.

Stephen, Addlestone, Surrey, England

Why place yourself in such danger? Hope the thrill was worth it.

m.J., Iowa, U.S.A.

I think Leonardo and Terry have both made the assumption that the team of rafters was badly prepared and thus, in some way, deserved their mis-fortune. I do not believe Mr Zverev or his team ventured out to such an area without supplies, their boats tipped and it seems very likely that any spare clothes, food and emergency equipment like flairs will have floated away. They had the sense to have arranged a rendezvous with a Chinese guide.

Often the things that distinguish the dead and the heroic when it comes to mountaineering, or general activities of a similar danger, is luck.

Jack, Huddersfield, England

Several days ago I started reading The Worst Desert on Earth, published in 1995 by Charles Blackmore. The Taklamakan Desert has a reputation that is thousands of years old - death! Today I read your Times report. It is hard to believe that someone would walk into this area of the world as ill-prepared as Mr. Zverev was; even harder to believe he survived.

Leonardo Berardi, Nevada City, California, USA

All very sad, but as usual with many of these so called adventurer's, they were ill prepared for the trip they were undertaking, 'The 35-year-old Russian had no supplies- dressed only in trousers, a T-shirt and a cagoule, he had no means to signal to the search team' whats that about, its not as if they didn't know this was called the 'Taklamakan Desert — its name means “you go in but you don’t come out” and then the state picks up the bill. But I'm sure he'll get a good book deal out of it.

Terry, Beijing,

"very difficult to retrieve the other dead men"

Six men, two alive, three bodies - that leaves one.

Which part of your report is inaccurate?

Ian, Solihull,