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Lost Hikers on a Massive Scale
Backcountry.com: The Goat —
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Not a day goes by in this country that a hiker doesn’t wander off-trail ...
104 Lost Chinese Hikers Rescued
Backpacker Magazine Blogs - backpacker.com —
... Lovers Valley due the darkness."Due the darkness?" It's amazing that out of 104 hikers, no one took notice of 1) where they were going, and 2) "the darkness." That's some serious herd mentality. Luckily, Chinese authorities scrambled 230 rescuers, and no one was injured. It's amazing that those 334 people ever found each other in the wilderness. (Learn more about Chinese backpacking's rapid expansion in "The People's Hiking Revolution," from our March issue.) Ted Alvarez 104 stranded climbers rescued in Shenzen (Shenzen Post) via The Goat
104 Hikers Get Lost In China (Yes! 104!)
The Adventure Blog —
... This apparently wasn't the case for a group of climbers in China calling themselves the "Wind Runners". It seems that the group used the Internet to loosely organize an outing into a remote region on the border of "Huiyang Lovers’ Valley and Pingshan Moutain in the Longgang district. The group rented two busses and drove out to a site where they intended to go climbing, and eventually they got lost due to darkness according to this story from the the ...
