Clem Lindenmayer … missing in Tibet.
A search has been launched for an Australian travel writer missing for more than a month in a mountainous region of Tibet.
Clem Lindenmayer, a 47-year-old Victorian man who writes for travel guidebook company Lonely Planet, disappeared while hiking near Minya Konka mountain in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Ganzi, the Chinese Xinhua news agency reported.
Mr Lindenmayer’s last contact with his family was an email on May 2 telling them of his whereabouts, the Sichuan Mountaineering Association’s Gao Min told Xinhua.
Mr Gao said a search had been launched for Mr Lindenmayer and that his family were travelling to the area, the report said.
A notice was also published last Friday to alert locals to Mr Lindenmayer’s disappearance, Mr Gao said.
A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman confirmed the family of an Australian man travelling in southern China were trying to locate him.
Mr Lindenmayer’s family had been offered consular assistance to assist with their search, he said.
A mountaineering expedition website says the 7556 metre-high Minya Konka is the highest peak in eastern Tibet.
The “beautiful” mountain was “rugged and rarely visited”, the website said.
Comment is being sought from Mr Lindenmayer’s family and Lonely Planet.[/quote]
this isn’t actually Tibet proper. its in Sichuan though 80% Tibetan…loads of very remote mountains, many unclimbed since the Tibetans regard them as sacred…
Clem Lindenmayer, 47, disappeared while hiking near Minya Konka mountain, also known as Gongga Shan in Sichuan province.
China’s official Xinhua news agency said villagers found his body on July 19.
Mr Lindenmayer’s family said they last heard from him on May 2 when he contacted his wife by email to tell her he was preparing for a hike around the mountain range, which lies in a rugged region that was once part of Tibet.
His mother said today she had learned of the discovery of her son’s body last weekend.[/quote]
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Aw gawd! Can you imagine that? All those sneering faces laughing as the gweilo goes down. The regret . . why Mongkok, why a freakin’ fish ball?
HG[/quote]
As you slump, red faced and sweaty, into the putrid smelling gutter next to the tanks up guppies, getting smacked in the back of the head with shopping bags?
