Overview
- Local rescue teams located a body in the Bucegi Mountains that Avon and Somerset Police said is believed to be 18‑year‑old George Smyth.
- Formal identification has not yet taken place and forensic examinations, including an autopsy, are being carried out to confirm the identity.
- George went missing in November 2025 after making a distress call to 112 reporting exhaustion and hypothermia from a remote high‑altitude valley.
- Search operations were repeatedly hampered by deep snow and very hard‑to‑access terrain, and teams resumed searches earlier this month before the discovery.
- The family have been informed, asked for privacy, and authorities in Romania and the UK are coordinating next steps to repatriate the body to Bristol.