Search Continues for Lonely Planet Travel Writer
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.22.07 | 11:30 AM ET
The search continues for Clem Lindenmayer, the 47-year-old Australian travel writer who disappeared last month while hiking near Minya Konka in western China. ChinaTrekking.com has been keeping close tabs on the search, posting news of sightings of Western hikers, but it has no conclusive reports of Lindenmayer sightings. Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree discussion is still active. JourneyEast.org, which notes an $800 reward for information leading to Lindenmayer, reports that his last e-mail was sent in early May from Kangding.
The site has numerous photos of the bearded writer as well as contact information for anyone who may have seen him. TheMissingTrekker.com also has photos.
As we noted earlier this month, Lindenmayer’s last book for Lonely Planet was Trekking in the Patagonian Andes, published in 2003. He’s an experienced hiker who speaks Mandarin.
Meanwhile, in a surprising twist, searchers looking for Lindenmayer have apparently discovered the remains of a mountaineer believed to have disappeared 26 years ago. “A rescue official has told Xinhua the clothing and equipment on the located body indicate it might be a member of a Japanese team that went missing in 1981,” according to a Reuters report.
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* Lonely Planet Travel Writer Missing in Tibet
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
