trekker
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One trekker, who had visited the Himalayas more than a dozen times, told the BBC he had "never experienced weather like this".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
The Malaysian trekker has been missing since 2015, he said, and the tourist police is still searching for them at “the family’s request.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
Spanish diplomats are in touch with Iranian authorities about 41-year-old trekker Santiago Sanchez, according to the foreign ministry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
In August 2016, an experienced American trekker named Justin Alexander Shetler ascended to a high Himalayan lake on a pilgrimage in the Parvati Valley of northern India, never to be heard from again.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
He was in truth a "trekker" rather than a nomad, and he possessed the invaluable military attributes of the man unchained by cities and accustomed to wander far in a hard and bracing country.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
Hundreds of trekkers on the Annapurna Circuit - crucial to Nepal's economy - have had to cut short their hikes to get to safety.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
In an area home to vast energy infrastructure projects, Nepal's disaster authority added 933 hydropower workers to a missing persons list already including trekkers and pilgrims to Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
More than 1,400 people are missing, including trekkers in the Himalayas and scores of Hindu pilgrims to Tibet's sacred snow-capped Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Spring is peak visitor season here, with trekkers, tourists and climbers all arriving in the area.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Prior to the clinic’s existence, acute altitude illness killed approximately one or two out of every 500 trekkers who passed through Pheriche.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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