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- Mountaineer died after falling a ravine and freezing to death.
- She was eight days into a 25-day hike when she experienced the tragic incident.
A social media superstar famous for climbing mountains while wearing bikinis has died after falling down a ravine during a solo hike.
According to reports, Gigi Wu, known as Bikini Climber, was found frozen to death after a 20m fall.
The 36-year-old was eight days into a 25-day solo hike on Saturday, January 19, when she suddenly called a friend to say that she has fallen a ravine in Central Taiwan‘s Yushan Mountain and was unable to move because of a leg injury.
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Rescuers who arrived, however, were only able to airlift her 28 hours after the fall due to poor weather conditions. The mountaineer was already dead by then.
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She has frozen to death as the temperature in the area that day was enough to freeze a human, said Commander Lin Cheng-I of the Nantou County Fire Department.
“The weather conditions in the mountains are not good, we have asked our rescuers to move the body to a more open space and after the weather clears we will make a request for a helicopter to bring the body down.”
The official cause of the woman’s death is still unclear.
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Wu has scaled more than 100 peaks in the span of four years.
“I put on a bikini in each one of the 100 mountains. I only have around 97 bikinis so I accidentally repeated some,” she said in an interview with a local channel.
