• Aiden Webb: British backpacker's body found in Vietnam
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[QUOTE]Park rangers have found the body of Aiden Webb, a Briton who went missing after injuring himself on a solo trek up Vietnam’s highest mountain six days ago. Webb, 22, an experienced climber from Norwich, was climbing Fansipan, which is more than 10,000ft (3,000 metres) high, when he fell on Saturday morning. He called his girlfriend, who was in a nearby town, to tell her he was lost before his phone battery died. Vietnam’s state-run news agency said a rescue team found Webb’s body less than a mile from a cable car structure. The team estimated Webb had died three days ago. The BBC’s Vietnamese service quoted the general manager of the Hoang Lien national park as saying: “It is very sad that we found the British tourist body today at 12:50 (06:50 BST). The position is quite near the location that his girlfriend gave us, in Sin Chai village.”[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/body-of-british-backpacker-aiden-webb-found-vietnam[/url] Terrible news.
Christ, he spent three days crawling around, hopelessly lost, and ended up dying less than a mile away from somewhere that could help him. That's absolutely tragic.
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