A body has been found during the search for an 18-year-old British man who went missing last year while hiking in Romania. George Smyth, a geology student at the University of Bristol, went missing in November.
On Saturday, Avon and Somerset Police said a body found in the Bucegi Mountains region was believed to be that of Smyth.
His family has been informed. Efforts will be made to return Smyth’s body to the UK once formal identification has been carried out.
The student, from Newport in Shropshire, is believed to have set off from Poiana Brasov heading towards Bran. He arrived in Tiganesti, where he made an emergency call for help.
At the time, rescue teams said he was in a “very isolated and difficult to reach mountainous area” and the weather conditions were extremely severe with strong winds, heavy snowfall and dense fog.
Sebastian Marinescu, from the area’s mountain rescue service, previously told the BBC that the 18-year-old was disoriented, physically exhausted and already showing signs of hypothermia when they received the emergency call.