Missing Trekker’s Body Found After Avalanche Near Annapurna

The body of a Chinese trekker who was caught in an avalanche on March 24 while descending from the Annapurna Base Camp was finally found on Saturday, according to tourisminfonepal. Unfortunately, the 28-year-old Yuan (complete name unknown) had perished in the slide.

After the avalanche, local searchers and Nepal Police looked for the missing man without success. On March 29, a special rescue team intensified efforts to locate the man.

Finally, on April 5, searchers discovered his body near the Modi River, located within the Annapurna Rural Municipality-11 near Chumrung.

Yuan was still carrying his backpack. His family had already arrived in Nepal to claim the body after the post mortems.

Avalanche.

Avalanche. Photo: Tourisminfonepal

Kris Annapurna

KrisAnnapurna is a writer with ExplorersWeb.

Kris has been writing about history and tales in alpinism, news, mountaineering, and news updates in the Himalaya, Karakoram, etc., for with ExplorersWeb since 2021. Prior to that, Kris worked as a real estate agent, interpreter, and translator in criminal law. Now based in Madrid, Spain, she was born and raised in Hungary.