{"id":438470,"date":"2026-02-21T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438470\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:04:06","slug":"bodies-of-two-young-men-found-in-eryri-mountain-range-after-large-scale-search-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438470\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of two young men found in Eryri mountain range after large-scale search | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The bodies of two men have been found in Eryri mountain range in north <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/wales\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> after a large-scale search, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The men, aged 19 and 20, were reported missing on Wednesday, which sparked a search operation on the Eryri mountain range (Snowdonia).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Mountain rescue teams waded through snow and ice on Yr Wyddfa \u2013 also known as Snowdon \u2013 until the early hours of Thursday morning before resuming at 8am that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Both men were located and recovered, and their families have been informed, north Wales Police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Jurgen Dissmann, chair of Llanberis mountain rescue team, said: \u201cI would like to extend our most heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of the two men who have tragically lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe team were tasked by north Wales Police and launched an extensive multiagency operation in full winter conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cVolunteers searched across challenging mountain terrain in snow and ice, working long hours through the night in difficult weather in an effort to locate the pair as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cDespite the determined and sustained commitment of everyone involved, we are deeply saddened that, despite all efforts, the outcome was not what we had hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A spokesperson for north Wales Police said: \u201cWe can confirm that two bodies have been located in the Eryri mountain range during searches for two missing men, aged 19 and 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cConcerns for the welfare of the men were reported to police on Wednesday, 18 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cTragically, the bodies of the two men were located and recovered as part of these coordinated search efforts. Both have now been formally identified, and their families have been informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe coroner has been notified, and we ask that the privacy of the families is respected at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Last June, two sisters, Hajra Zahid, 29, and Haleema Zahid, 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4ny3gn4yko\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> after being pulled from water on the Watkin Path, which leads to the summit of Snowdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of two men have been found in Eryri mountain range in north Wales after a large-scale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-438470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}