A Melbourne man who went missing in a mountainous region of Peru has been found dead, weeks after he failed to return from a remote solo hike.<\/p>\n
Family and friends of Jordan Yap launched a search mission after the 30-year-old failed to return from a hike in South America last month.<\/p>\n
Mr Yap’s friends shared the sad news on a social media page launched to help with search efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“With a heavy heart we are so sorry to tell you Jordan has been found, and he did not survive,” the social media statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Please remember Jordan as the vibrant man he was, and for the immense joy he brought to so many people’s lives.”<\/p>\n
The ABC understands friends and family of Mr Yap were notified by local authorities that his body had been found in the Mitucocha Lagoon area.<\/p>\n
Mitucocha Lagoon, or Lake Mitococha, is a high-altitude (4,270 metres) lake in central Peru around 200 kilometres north of the capital, Lima. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed it was assisting the family of an Australian who died in Peru.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We send our deepest condolences to the family at this difficult time,” a spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mr Yap had attempted to complete a hike in the remote Huayhuash region, which was expected to take about 10 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He left his hostel in the town of Huaraz on September 14 and was due to check into a hotel on the 23rd before catching a flight from Lima to Cusco the following day.<\/p>\n
His family raised concern after Mr Yap failed to check into his hotel and missed his flight.<\/p>\n
They reported him missing and engaged a local private mountain rescue team to help search for their son. \u00a0<\/p>\n
His father, Vinh Dao, had previously told the ABC that Mr Yap was an experienced hiker, but the trip to Peru was one of his first solo trips.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne man who went missing in a mountainous region of Peru has been found dead, weeks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1293,160154,43,293132,492013,45318,16872,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-924177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-body","tag-dfat","tag-headlines","tag-hiker","tag-jordan-yap","tag-missing","tag-missing-person","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924177","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=924177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}