Monday, a 10-member team will begin the search for Steve Fossett, the wealthy adventurer who went missing in September after taking off by plane from a remote Nevada ranch. According to The Associated Press, the team formed by athletes and expert mountaineers is led by Simon Donato, a Canadian geologist who is very passionate with the wilderness.

The search team will search the area where the plane was last seen. The search area has peaks ranging from 10,000 to more than 11,000 feet and it is east of the Sierra Nevada. The team wants to cover a 38-square- mile sector of rugged terrain, an area between Yosemite and the Lake Tahoe region. The members all paid for themselves.

Simon Donato said in an interview at a base camp between the Bodie Hills and Sweetwater Mountains that this search would also give others the possibility to take the same path when they would go hiking.

“Whether we luck out and find the wreckage or not, at least our tracks will be preserved so that in the future if someone wants to give this a try they'll know where we already were and they can go to the next mountain range over,” said Donato, according to The Associated Press.

The mobile headquarters were set near the town of Bridgeport (Mono County), along U.S. Highway 395 and the team will search in the weekend, trying to cover 15 to 20 miles a day. There were other search activities made by planes, covering up to 20,000 square miles. Simon Donato said that Fossett’s plane crashed and his disappearance was not staged. Steve Fossett was declared legally dead Feb., 15 by an Illinois judge.

In late August, Robert Hyman, a Washington, D.C., investor and alpinist, also plans to gather up a team of about 15 climbers and mountain guides in order to check an area east of the region where Simon Donato and his team will search.

Steve Fossett’s widow Peggy released a statement saying that she didn’t plan the search and didn’t intend to begin other search activities.