Overview
- Salvamont Brașov suspended ground searches after a level‑4 avalanche assessment and snow depths over two metres in parts of the Tiganesti Valley.
- The 18-year-old University of Bristol student called for help on November 23 reporting exhaustion and possible hypothermia and was advised to move toward the Mălăiești Chalet.
- Rescuers found his backpack near the distress-call location, containing a sleeping bag and a stove, but no further trace has been identified.
- Dozens of personnel, including canine teams, drones and helicopters, remain mobilized and will resume operations when weather permits.
- Authorities are coordinating with his family in Romania and say there is no evidence he was heading to Bran Castle.