{"id":57977,"date":"2019-01-23T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57977"},"modified":"2019-01-23T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T00:45:24","slug":"woman-climbs-mountains-bikinis-freezes-death-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57977","title":{"rendered":"Woman who climbs mountains in bikinis freezes to death after falling"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mountaineer known for hiking in bikinis has frozen to death.<\/p>\n

Gigi Wu, also known as Wu Chi-yun, was found by a search and rescue party inside Taiwan\u2019s Yushan National Park, but she had no vital signs and was declared dead on January 21.<\/p>\n

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Having set out on a solo hike starting in the landlocked Nantou County in Central Taiwan on January 11, the 36-year-old known as the \u2018Bikini Hiker\u2019 made a distress call to a friend using her satellite phone on January 19.<\/p>\n

In a message to be passed on to the Nantou fire service, Wu revealed she had stumbled more than 20 metres down a ravine inside a national park named after the summit Yushan \u2013 Mandarin for Mount Jade.<\/p>\n

Wu said she was trapped at the bottom and unable to move due to the injuries sustained during the fall.<\/p>\n

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The island\u2019s National Airborne Service Corps said it attempted to dispatch Black Hawk rescue helicopters to her location on three separate occasions, but the flights were ultimately grounded due to poor weather conditions.<\/p>\n

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It finally decided to send in two search and rescue parties comprising three members each. They found Wu\u2019s body at the location of her distress beacon 28 hours later.<\/p>\n

Rescuers say they are still waiting for stable weather in which to airlift Wu\u2019s body out of the ravine, with the search party having since set up camp near the site of the accident.<\/p>\n

Commander Lin Cheng-I, who heads up the Nantou County Fire Department\u2019s Third Squadron, revealed Wu\u2019s distress beacon was activated at an altitude of 1,700 metres above sea level, where night-time temperatures reached just 2 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

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