SEARCH FOR MISSING US TREKKER ON

Nepali security agencies along with US Embassy in Nepal and Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) have intensified search for missing US trekker Aubrey Caroline Sacco.

Aubrey checked in with the Langtang National Park check-point at Dhunche on April 20 and have gone out of contact ever since. She last wrote an email to her family members from Syafrubesi on the same day.

Aubrey was travelling as a Free Individual Trekker (FIT) and had taken TIMS Card meant for FITs. She was supposed to return to Kathmandu on April 29.

Aubrey (23) is a graduate of Colorado University and has interests in music, yoga and meditation. She has been teaching yoga in South Asia since the past six months. 

Nepal Police, Nepal Army, Tourist Police and TAAN are coordinating the search for the missing trekker. They have also started broadcasting information about Aubrey through a local radio station.

Meanwhile, District Police Office, Rasuwa, has deployed a search team in the Langtang region. Mahesh Shakya, a close friend of the Sacco family who is with the police team, said he believed Aubrey went missing between Syafrubensi and Ghoda Tabela, a day's hike from Syafrubesi.

Source TAAN e-news 14/5/010 http://www.taan.org.np