Search for Missing UK Teenager Resumes

5th December 2025

The avalanche threat in the Romanian mountains has decreased and search teams are back out looking for 18-year-old George Smith.

He had been hiking in the Bucegi Mountains  and has been missing for more than a week said the Brașov Mountain Rescue.

The search was temporarily called off after seven days because of the concern about avalanches but has now resumed.

He made an emergency more than a week ago and the rescue services said “he was disoriented, physically exhausted, and already showing signs of hypothermia”.

His location was in a “very isolated and hard-to-access mountain area” and the weather conditions “were extremely severe with strong winds, heavy snowfall, and dense fog”.

His family has traveled to Romania to support the search teams.

See more on the BBC.