| Search & Recovery on Bogeda |
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In the summer of 1998, three mountain climbers from Hong
Kong lost contact with the base camp at an altitude of 5,445 meters near the
peak of the Bogeda Snow Mountain in Xinjiang, China. A search team together with 2 military helicopters went up the
mountain for 11 days to look for the missing climbers, but the search and
rescue efforts were unsuccessful. In the summer of 1999, Thin & High organized a large
search team consisting of volunteers from Mainland China, Hong Kong and
Taiwan. They overcame bureaucratic as
well as physical difficulties and went on a 26-day expedition to search for the
three missing mountaineers on Bogeda.
Although the team did not find the bodies of the climbers, they were
able to recover all of the climbers’ personal belongings, which provided
sufficient proof of the climbers’ demise for their families to claim death
benefits. Based on the evidence
collected by the team, experts concluded that the three climbers fell of a
cliff into the glacier together.
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