Aubrey Sacco (23) missing since 4/20/2010 after trekking in Nepal alone

[Olivia]

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=10219519&ref=search&sid=540 371421.1323508251..1

http://www.aubreysacco.com/acs/Traveler.html


http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/23577360/detail.html

A Colorado man whose daughter is overdue from a trek in Nepal is traveling there to try to find her.

Paul Sacco of Greeley had a flight Monday to Nepal. He and his wife haven't heard from their 23-year-old daughter, Aubrey Sacco, since April 20, when she e-mailed plans of hiking alone through Nepal's Langtang region, near the Tibetan border.

She planned to finish around April 30, but while she was in Langtang National Park, protests and strikes demanding the resignation of Nepal's prime minister shut down businesses, transportation and much of the local communication networks. She was supposed to check in after she finished the trek, but never did.

She had been scheduled to fly Saturday from Nepal to Sri Lanka, but no recent sightings of her have been reported.

Aubrey Sacco graduated from the University of Colorado last year.

She had been in south Asia for five months, teaching yoga and traveling. She was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

Police teams in the Rasuwa area searched the trekking route with sniffer dogs and interviewed inn owners and villagers. Word has been sent to local monasteries, which are often visited by foreign trekkers.

The family has contacted the U.S. Embassy, the Nepali government, and local newspapers, hoping to find someone who might have seen her along the route. Sherpas and local climbing clubs have also been notified to look for the woman.

A Facebook page has also been created by a relative to share information on the search for Sacco.

Thousands of Western backpackers visit during the spring season to hike in Nepal, home to dozens of popular mountain trails as well as Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

[Bella]

Why would someone want to do this alone? 

[bowieluva]

[quote author=GothaBella link=topic=25377.msg1625861#msg1625861 date=1274140189]
Why would someone want to do this alone? 
[/quote]
Long answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild

Short answer: being stupid and stubborn and totally vain about the wild with this idea that you can somehow conquer it.

[Bella]

[quote author=bowieluva link=topic=25377.msg1625905#msg1625905 date=1274141690]
Long answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild

Short answer: being stupid and stubborn and totally vain about the wild with this idea that you can somehow conquer it.
[/quote]


I was just reading an old thread about a missing kid that mentioned this book!

http://mydeathspace.com/smf/index.php?topic=13379.0

[sportsgirl64]

some people think its peacfull to travel alone,just hope she gets found she accomplished alot too...an her family are prolly ver worried.

[GirlLoveWarrior]

(the # was public and on her website "contact me")..

her voicemail was adorable

[Olivia]

Friends and family gathered July 31 at the River Park Moose Lodge to raise money to find Aubrey Sacco.

Sacco, 23, went missing about three months ago during a trip to the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal.

Paul and Connie Sacco share some thoughts July 31 about their daugher, Aubrey Sacco, and thank everyone for their support at the River Park Moose Lodge.

Her parents, Frank and Connie, are graduates of East Leyden High School in Franklin Park and former members of St. Cyprian Parish in River Grove.

The Saccos have been forced to conduct nearly all of the searching for their daughter in Nepal on their own and out of their own pocket.

The family wants to expand its search and hire more searchers, translators, and helicopters as well as offer a reward.

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/elmwoodpark/news/2560960,elmwood-park-sacco-080510-s1.article

[Deviant Toaster]

It sucks that it has been left upto the parents to do all the searching. I know it is probably naive of me to hope that they might find her alive, but I do.

[Hayalet]

Could this photo solve mystery of American hiker missing for a year in Nepal? Family releases image of 'person of interest' found on daughter's laptop

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:54 AM on 2nd December 2011

The anguished family of an American woman who vanished in Nepal are hoping a photo found on her laptop will provide a break in the case.
Aubrey Sacco, of Greeley, Colorado, was 23 years old when she failed to return after a trek in Langtang National Park in Nepal on April 2010.

On April 20, her parents received an email saying she would be finishing a solo hike in the Himalayas around April 30.


Who is he? About a month after Aubrey Sacco disappeared, her father found a photo of this 'person of interest' on her laptop

Missing: Aubrey Sacco is a 23-year-old from Colorado who has not been seen since trekking in Langtang Park in Nepal last year
But that day came and went, and they have not heard from Aubrey since.

In May 2010, about a month after she went missing, her father found a photo of someone he had never seen before on her laptop.

The stranger is a skinny blond male wearing a blue polo shirt and sitting in a Darjeeling, India, caf? with a large bottle of Pepsi in front of him.

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Miss Sacco’s father Paul told the Daily Camera that just because they’re looking for him does not mean he had something to do with her disappearance.

He said: 'I want to emphasize that this guy is not a suspect. We just know that she took the photo of him, so why wouldn't he surface? Why wouldn't he say something?'
'He's a person of interest just because we don't know who he is.'

Trek: Aubrey's mother Connie has this week hiked the path undertaken by her daughter in a bid to find her

The Sacco family has turned to social media like Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about Miss Sacco’s disappearance.

They have even appealed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for help, but have not yet received a response.

Paul Sacco told the paper: 'It isn't even losing the child that is as bad as not having a system in place to find her. That's worse. It's horrific. It's just a parent's worst nightmare.'

Paul Sacco told reporters in August that he believes nearby villagers in Kathmandu are hiding information about his daughter.

The family is holding out hope that she is alive and possibly being held captive by someone.
Mr Sacco said Aubrey did a lot of travelling alone, all over the world. He said the trip to Nepal was last minute and was not on Aubrey's itinerary.

He feels there there was very little danger that Aubrey would have fallen into the water or off a cliff while on the hike.
'The hike is not a technical climb,' he said. 'Not like people when they think of Mount Everest. It's a long, long trail. A lot of uphill and a lot of downhill. But it is really not that dangerous of a hike.'

Referring to the FBI, Aubrey's mother Connie Sacco, said: 'They have told us that [the villagers] are not talking and all of the searchers that have interviewed those people know that the villagers are withholding information.
'They're protecting each other because they're afraid of the police.'

The FBI, which joined the search last year, said at the time there were 10 to 12 'persons of interest' in her disappearance. Most of them were with Aubrey on her last trek.
'I feel she is still alive,' Mrs Sacco said. 'I don't feel a dread that we have lost her. I've never felt that.'
Miss Sacco's missing persons investigation is being treated as a criminal investigation with the Denver FBI involved in the case.

Blog: The last update on Aubrey's travel blog came on April 15, 2010, where she wrote about gettinga train to the Himalayas


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1m68irl6l

[puzzld]

Aubrey Sacco from Colorado went trekking alone in Nepal, against her parents' advice, and disappeared. That was three years ago. There has been no trace of her despite many searches.

A breakthrough in her case came this week when Nepalese police arrested two men who hail from the region where she vanished. "We assume that she has been murdered," police said Saturday.

The16-year-old and the 22-year-old suspects are from Langtang, about 60 miles north of Kathmandu. They are in custody on suspicion of the alleged crime, chief Anurag Kumar Duwedi said.

Sacco's family had been worried there would be no serious investigation despite their offer of a $25,000 reward for any information on her.

Her father, Paul Sacco, a brother and one of their friends flew to Nepal to scour mountain trails after she vanished in April 2010. They had no luck, and what they heard from locals in the beginning discouraged them.

They told them that if they did know something about the case, they would not share it with authorities.
The faces of some of America\'s missing The faces of some of America's missing

Sacco's parents have made three trips each to Nepal to search together with military and police for any sign of her, her mother Connie said.

They have hired private detectives to help on the ground over the past three years, but the trail went cold.

"No leads, no evidence of any sort," she said.

Sacco went on the trek in the Langtang National Park after graduating from college. She was 23 at the time.

She was living up to her motto, "glitter the world," on a five-month trip through South Asia, her family says.

The artist and musician first taught yoga to vacationers in Sri Lanka. Later, she went to India, studying yoga and volunteering to help schoolchildren with art and music.

She preferred staying with villagers as opposed to high-end places, Connie Sacco said. She looked forward to volunteering in Nepal.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

[Peavey]

Here she is with her brothers. Her fb highlights just how amazing she was. RIP Aubrey.

[morbidT]

So the one suspect would have been 13 at the time of her disappearance?