{"id":446225,"date":"2026-01-30T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:31:08","slug":"teenage-bushwalker-found-dead-in-the-blue-gum-forest-in-blue-mountains-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446225\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage bushwalker found dead in the Blue Gum Forest in Blue Mountains National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 16-year-old bushwalker has been found dead in a creek in the Blue Mountains National Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say he and his 17-year-old friend travelled to Leura train station on Tuesday before walking to Mount Hay to begin a three-day hike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Just before 6pm on Tuesday the two walkers became separated and the older hiker activated his personal locator beacon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police launched a land and air search for the pair and the 17-year-old was winched to safety from the Acacia Flat campground in the Blue Gum Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The younger walker could not be found at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police continued to search for the 16-year-old, assisted by the Blue Mountains rescue squad, PolAir, NSW Ambulance and the TOLL rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The body of the missing boy was found about 1pm on Thursday in a creek in the Blue Gum Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A post-mortem examination will be conducted on the 16-year-old to determine how he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A report will also be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old bushwalker has been found dead in a creek in the Blue Mountains National Park. Police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[231393,231392,51125,43,231391,44,57808,4277,231394,231395,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-446225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-acacia-flats-camping","tag-blue-gum-forest","tag-blue-mountains","tag-headlines","tag-mt-hay","tag-news","tag-nsw-ambulance","tag-nsw-police","tag-teen-died-blue-mountains","tag-teens-body-found-blue-mountains","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}