Overview
- Salvamont Brașov suspended field operations after a level-4 avalanche assessment, with snow reported over two metres in parts of the Țigănești Valley.
- A 17-person team restarted the search Thursday morning before fresh danger forced another halt.
- George Smyth called emergency services on November 23 from the Țigănești Valley reporting exhaustion and possible hypothermia and was advised to return toward the Mălăiești Chalet.
- Rescuers later found his backpack near the distress-call location containing a sleeping bag and a stove, a detail officials described as unusual.
- Authorities emphasized the case is not abandoned and searches will resume when safe, and they said there is no information indicating he was heading to Bran’s Dracula’s Castle.