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A British backpacker who told his girlfriend not to call for help when he injured himself climbing a mountain in Vietnam has been found dead.
The body of Aiden Webb was found near Sin Chai Village, just days after he posted on Facebook that he was apologising to his family in advance for thinking he was reckless for climbing the mountain alone.
The 22-year-old from Norwich, Norfolk was last seen after setting out to climb the 10,000 foot Fansipan peak near Sa Pa in north west Vietnam on Saturday.
British backpacker Aiden Webb, 22, from Norwich, who has not been seen since Friday when he set out to climb a mountain in Vietnam
Mr Webb with his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan. She was the last person to hear from him after he called her to say he had fallen down a mountain and was injured
In the days before he went missing, he took to Facebook and spoke of his time trekking up mountains, caving, motorbiking and climbing mountains solo.
He wrote: ‘Never had so much fun and never had my mind so clear and empty.
‘Definitely no ‘El Capitan’, but regardless.This is something I’ve felt I’ve needed to do in a long time.
‘(Apologies in advance to all family members who think I’m loco, and reckless I’m actually a very safe climber and know my limits).’
Both Miss Baughan and Mr Webb’s aunt Lisa have been posting updates on Facebook to try and find him
After he went missing, forest rangers spent a week searching for him before drones were brought in to reach down ravines.
Mr Webb, pictured with his girlfriend, had been living in Cambridge, where he studied drama at Anglia Ruskin University
However, today park rangers found Mr Webb’s body close to the location his girlfriend handed over to police at the foot of the mountain.
The head of the Hoang Lien National Park told the BBC: ‘It is very sad that we found the British tourist body today at 12:50.
‘The position is quite near the location that his girlfriend gave us, in Sin Chai Village.’
Mr Webb was a keen mountain climber but he injured himself after getting into trouble during the climb last week.
He had been keeping in contact with his girlfriend, Bluebell Baughan, link slot gacor through Facebook messenger but her messages stopped delivering to his phone.
The climber had told Miss Baughan not to get help for him as he was ‘determined’ to get to the top.
But he finally agreed after becoming cold and injured on the mountain and he sent his girlfriend his location.
The last message she received from her boyfriend of two years was at 6.18am local time on Saturday which jokingly said he had dropped her torch down a waterfall.
Speaking at the time he was missing, Miss Baughan said: ‘I kept asking if I could get him help but he was determined that he would make it to the top of the mountain.
‘He started to say he was getting cold and quite scared because he had hurt his arm and knew the climb to get back down would be extremely difficult.
Mr Webb had been climbing the Fansipan Mountain in Vietnam, pictured, when he fell and injured himself and he has not been seen since
‘In the hours of the morning he decided to move but I told him to stay where he was.
‘But he fell and hurt his knee quite badly and that’s when he finally let me get him some help.’
The couple met at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, where Mr Webb studied drama and Miss Baughan studied performing arts.
A donation page which was set up to help pay volunteers for the search raised £6,000 in just three days.