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Aubrey Sacco missing in Nepal - 23 year old solo hiker never returned from hike [VIDEO]
May 28, 2010 12:29 AM EDT (Updated: May 28, 2010 12:30 AM EDT)
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Twenty-three year old Aubrey Sacco of California is missing in Nepal. She was on a solo hike in the Himalayas.

She graduated from the University of Colorado in the fall. She left in December for her trip. Now that she is missing, it is her mother Connie Sacco’s nightmare. Aubrey Sacco was supposed to check in with her family on April 29, 2010, but that call never came.

Her father Paul Sacco is in Nepal looking for her. Her mother believes that she has gotten of the trail and is waiting for her father to come and bring her home. Aubrey did register at two places along the popular hiking trail she was on, but her trail ends there.

The American Embassy is looking for a possible hiking companion who may have been with her, but so far, they have found nothing. Unfortunately, there are no good leads on what may have happened. There are several people who are looking for her who are from the area, which is a good sign because they actually know the location which should help in the search.

What a nightmare indeed! I hope that Paul Sacco locates his daughter and soon. I hope that they are able to bring Aubrey Sacco home safely.

The video below gives more information about the Aubrey Sacco story.

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Greeley Central alumni and friends of Aubrey Sacco to gather for soccer game


Greeley Central alumni and friends of Aubrey Sacco will gather for a coed fundraiser soccer game that is open to the public to play or watch.

Sacco vanished more than a month ago while trekking alone in Nepal in the Langtang National Park.

The gates at the District 6 Stadium behind Northridge High School, 100 71st Ave., Greeley, open at 8:15 a.m. June 12CQ, and the game kicks off at 9 a.m. There will be a barbecue after the game at noon, and hot dogs and burgers will be available for purchase.

There will also be events such as a $5 halftime penalty shoot-out and a raffle as well as shirts and ribbons for sale.

The game will end with enough time to see the U.S. and England World Cup game.

To play, RSVP to Ian Wale at ianwale@bresnan.net.

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ubrey Sacco, Greeley Woman, Missing In Nepal; Police Scouring Mountains For Evidence
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA | 05/12/10 04:07 PM |

KATMANDU, Nepal — Police are scouring a remote region in northern Nepal, searching for a Colorado woman who has been missing since last month when she failed to check in after a solo hike in the Himalayan mountains, an official said Wednesday.

Aubrey Sacco, 23, of Greeley, was reported missing by her family. She had arrived in the Langtang area in the northern region of Nepal in April for a trek that was to last just over a week.

Her mother, Connie Sacco, said Aubrey had promised to check in by e-mail around April 29 but did not.

The young woman was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

The police chief in the Rasuwa area, Om Bahadur Rana, said police teams were searching the trekking route and interviewing inn owners and villagers. Word has been sent to local monasteries, which are often visited by foreign trekkers.

Rana said the teams are searching for clues up to 300 feet (90 meters) on either side of the mountain trail. Police sniffer dogs will also join the search, he said.

Rana said Sacco had signed in before entering the Langtang conservation area as required on April 20. But she never signed out and nobody saw a woman fitting her description leave the area, he said.

The search was unable to begin sooner because mass protests on May 1 and a general strike imposed by the Maoist former rebels shut down all transport in Nepal until May 7.

Information about the missing woman was received only after the strike was over and a search was immediately ordered, police said.


Thousands of Western backpackers visit during the spring season to hike in Nepal, home to dozens of popular mountain trails as well as Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

Sacco's father, Greeley attorney Paul Sacco, pleaded with residents or those with relatives in the area to conduct foot searches.

"I will reward those people who find her," he said Wednesday.

He said his daughter, who graduated from the University of Colorado last year with degrees in art and psychology, is a yogi and former soccer player who has traveled to Asia before.

"She may not be lost, but there's no communication. It's terrible. But what do you do? Do you wait a month? It's so frustrating," he said.

"Aubrey is a student of eastern philosophy, and she firmly believes that positive thoughts from everyone will fix any problem, and I really believe that," he said.


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Aubrey Sacco still missing in Nepal
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Aubrey Sacco, missing in Nepal
Aubrey Sacco did not board her plane on Saturday and is still missing in Nepal.

Members of her family are planning on traveling to Nepal to continue the search for their daughter while it appears that no leads have led them any closer to finding her.

I check every day, several times a day, to see if there is any more news about the search. While things get more and more serious by the day, I’m holding on to positive thoughts that Aubrey will be back on a plane to Colorado in no time and that she will be reunited with her family. Personally, it’s given me some perspective and has made me think a lot about the most important things in life. It really makes me want to go back and visit my parents soon. I can’t imagine what her parents, Paul and Connie, are going through, and how her brothers are dealing with this stress.

Please, please keep tweeting, blogging, and posting on Facebook about Aubrey. The more we can get word out that Aubrey is still missing, the better chance we have of getting information that may help find her.

Aubrey’s family continues to make updates on the Facebook group dedicated to sharing information about her disappearance. The Sacco family stresses that this is the best source of information for updates on Aubrey’s whereabouts.

Also, big thanks to Elephant Journal for continuing to tweet about Aubrey and publishing a post about her disappearance. This has helped get a lot of exposure, make a lot of good connections, and gain advice for where Aubrey may have gone.

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World Headlines: missing hiker's laptop found in Nepal
Posted on Friday, May 21, 2010 @ 15:18:35 MDT in World Headlines
by jethadai

May 21, 2010 DENVER, Colorado-The father of a Colorado woman who went missing a month ago in Nepal has recovered a laptop computer and journal she left at a hotel.

Twenty-three-year-old Aubrey Sacco of Greeley went missing after setting out for a hike in the Himalayas. Her father and brother have arrived in Nepal to help look for her and have met with officials from the U.S. Embassy.





Sacco's father retrieved a laptop computer and journal that Aubrey Sacco left at the last hotel where she stayed.

Family spokeswoman Aileen Barry says the search area for Aubrey Sacco will be expanded because efforts on the trail have turned up no trace of the missing woman.
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Who Is Aubrey Sacco?
WASHINGTON (Politically Illustrated) – Who is Aubrey Sacco? Aubrey Sacco is an American citizen who disappeared during a planned 10-day hike in Nepal. Her life motto: “Make love to life.”

“She’s a free spirit. She’s an artist, she’s a yogi, she knows herself. She’s the strongest person I’ve ever known,” Connie Sacco told “The Today Show,” who is the mother of Ms. Sacco.

Police teams are searching mountain trails and interviewing villagers for possible clues on her whereabouts.

The U.S. Embassy is also helping the Nepalese government in coordinating search efforts.

“She’s my best friend in the world. She knows that, and I know she knows we’re trying to find her,” she said.
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Aubrey Sacco, 23, disappeared while hiking alone in Nepal. Sacco was supposed to end her hike on April 29 or 30 but she has been missing ever since. Her parents are anxiously searching for her
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Aubrey Sacco Still Missing in Nepal, Parents Believe She is Alive
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Aubrey Sacco Set Off on a Trek April 20 in Nepal and Has Not Been Seen Since

Aubrey Sacco traveled from Sri Lanka to Nepal earlier this year and then on April 20 set off for a trek through Langtang National Park in the world-famous Himalayas. She was set to come back April 29 or 30, but has not been seen or heard from since.


It is believed that she is still in the park as she did communicate with park officials at the beginning but has not checked out. It is thought that she was hiking alone. Police have found her laptop but nothing else.


Her mother Connie Sacco spoke to NBC:

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FBI Joins Hunt For Missing Colo. Trekker In Nepal
Aubrey Sacco Disappeared in April While Hiking Alone
Alan Gathright, 7NEWS Content Producer

POSTED: 3:11 pm MDT June 27, 2010
UPDATED: 3:49 pm MDT June 27, 2010

DENVER -- The FBI has joined the hunt for a 23-year-old Colorado woman who vanished while trekking alone in Nepal.

Denver FBI spokesman Dave Joly said Sunday the agency will assist the State Department and Nepalese authorities in the disappearance of Aubrey Sacco of Greeley.

Her parents have not heard from Aubrey since April 20, when she e-mailed plans to hike alone through Nepal's Langtang region, near the Tibetan border.


She planned to finish the trek about April 30, but while she was in Langtang National Park, protests and strikes demanding the resignation of Nepal's prime minister shut down businesses, transportation and much of the local communication networks. She was supposed to check in after she finished the trek, but never did.

Her father, Paul Sacco, journeyed to Nepal in May to look for Aubrey, and he found her laptop and journal in the last hotel where she stayed.

The father told Greeley Tribune in May that FBI agents have made two or three visits to his home.


The missing poster for Aubrey Sacco which has been distributed in Nepal.


Aubrey Sacco graduated from the University of Colorado last year.

She had been in south Asia for five months, teaching yoga and traveling. She was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

A Facebook page has also been created by a relative to share information on the search for Sacco.

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Greeley Dad Of Missing Nepal Hiker Finds Daughter's Laptop
Parent's Last Heard From Aubrey Sacco In April
Posted by Kim Nguyen, Web Editor

POSTED: 2:44 pm MDT May 20, 2010

DENVER -- The father of a Colorado woman who went missing while hiking in Nepal has discovered the missing woman's laptop and journal in the last hotel where she stayed.

A friend of missing hiker Aubrey Sacco told The Associated Press Thursday that the 23-year-old's father, Paul Sacco, is in Nepal looking for Aubrey. Aubrey Sacco has been missing since last month, when she left for a solo hike in the Himalayan mountains.

The family friend, Aileen Barry, said Paul Sacco found some personal items belonging to Aubrey at the last hotel where she stayed. Barry said Sacco has also met with officials from the U.S. embassy but that no more clues have been found to indicate what happened to Aubrey.


Her parents have not heard from Aubrey since April 20, when she e-mailed plans of hiking alone through Nepal's Langtang region, near the Tibetan border.

She planned to finish around April 30, but while she was in Langtang National Park, protests and strikes demanding the resignation of Nepal's prime minister shut down businesses, transportation and much of the local communication networks. She was supposed to check in after she finished the trek, but never did.

Aubrey Sacco graduated from the University of Colorado last year.

She had been in south Asia for five months, teaching yoga and traveling. She was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

A Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122096637808141&ref=mf has also been created by a relative to share information on the search for Sacco.
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Greeley Man Heads To Nepal To Find Missing Daughter
Aubrey Sacco Was Trekking Alone Through Langtang National Park
Posted by Kim Nguyen, Web Editor

POSTED: 7:39 am MDT May 17, 2010
UPDATED: 7:53 am MDT May 17, 2010

DENVER -- A Colorado man whose daughter is overdue from a trek in Nepal is traveling there to try to find her.

Paul Sacco of Greeley had a flight Monday to Nepal. He and his wife haven't heard from their 23-year-old daughter, Aubrey Sacco, since April 20, when she e-mailed plans of hiking alone through Nepal's Langtang region, near the Tibetan border.

She planned to finish around April 30, but while she was in Langtang National Park, protests and strikes demanding the resignation of Nepal's prime minister shut down businesses, transportation and much of the local communication networks. She was supposed to check in after she finished the trek, but never did.


She had been scheduled to fly Saturday from Nepal to Sri Lanka, but no recent sightings of her have been reported.

Aubrey Sacco graduated from the University of Colorado last year.

She had been in south Asia for five months, teaching yoga and traveling. She was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

Police teams in the Rasuwa area searched the trekking route with sniffer dogs and interviewed inn owners and villagers. Word has been sent to local monasteries, which are often visited by foreign trekkers.

The family has contacted the U.S. Embassy, the Nepali government, and local newspapers, hoping to find someone who might have seen her along the route. Sherpas and local climbing clubs have also been notified to look for the woman.

A Facebook page has also been created by a relative to share information on the search for Sacco.

Thousands of Western backpackers visit during the spring season to hike in Nepal, home to dozens of popular mountain trails as well as Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.
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CU Grad Missing On Himalayan Trek
Aubrey Sacco Last Heard From On April 20
Edited by Wayne Harrison, Web Editor

POSTED: 11:06 am MDT May 11, 2010
UPDATED: 7:35 am MDT May 12, 2010

DENVER -- A Colorado woman is missing in Nepal on a trek in the Himalayas.

Aubrey Caroline Sacco, a 2009 Colorado-Boulder graduate whose parents live in Greeley, had been in south Asia for five months, teaching yoga and traveling.

The 23-year-old e-mailed her parents on April 20 just before beginning a seven- to eight-day hike in Langtang National Park, near the Tibetan border. She planned to make the trek alone and failed to check in after she was supposed to finish the trek.


She has a ticket for a May 15 flight home, but her father is worried.

“She might be safe, but there’s no communication,” Paul Sacco said. “If she doesn’t get on that plane, I’m going there to get her.”

The young woman was hiking alone without a guide or porter. There were not many other backpackers in the area because it was end of the trekking season.

The police chief in the Rasuwa area, Om Bahadur Rana, said police teams were searching the trekking route and interviewing inn owners and villagers. Word has been sent to local monasteries, which are often visited by foreign trekkers.

Rana said the teams are searching for clues up to 300 feet on either side of the mountain trail. Police sniffer dogs will also join the search, he said.


The missing poster for Aubrey Sacco which has been distributed in Nepal.


Rana said Sacco had signed in before entering the Langtang conservation area as required on April 20. But she never signed out and nobody saw a woman fitting her description leave the area, he said.

The search was unable to begin sooner because mass protests on May 1 and a general strike imposed by the Maoist former rebels shut down all transport in Nepal until May 7.

Information about the missing woman was received only after the strike was over and a search was immediately ordered, police said.

Sacco called his daughter "one tough cookie."

The family has contacted the U.S. Embassy, the Nepali government, and local newspapers, hoping to find someone who might have seen her along the route. Sherpas and local climbing clubs have also been notified to look for the woman.

A Facebook page has also been created by a relative to share information on the search for Sacco.

Thousands of Western backpackers visit during the spring season to hike in Nepal, home to dozens of popular mountain trails as well as Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

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FBI agents are now looking into the disappearance of Greeley native Aubrey Sacco and are treating it as a missing person investigation.

They began looking into the case two weeks ago, said her father, Paul Sacco of Greeley.

Residents won't see as many FBI agents around Greeley as were in the search for Kayleah Wilson in recent months, but the agency is treating it every bit as serious as the

12-year-old's disappearance, Sacco said Saturday.

The FBI got involved after a friend of Aubrey, who has connections with the FBI, approached authorities with the case.

“Agents have been in our house two or three times now,” Sacco said.

The FBI's involvement still will be limited, Sacco said, because authorities can't do everything in Nepal, where Aubrey, 23, disappeared three months ago during a trek alone in the Langtang National Park.

“As far as being on the ground out there,” he said, “they will probably still have to rely on the Nepal people.”

There's no evidence that Aubrey died or was murdered, Sacco said, and the FBI's involvement does not necessarily mean something bad happened to her. There are

10 to 20 people of interest in the case, those who were in the park when Aubrey was trekking, and all of them are being questioned, Sacco said.

“There's no evidence that she fell,” Sacco said. “I methodically searched every part of that trail. I had 300 people helping me.”

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Mother holds out hope for daughter missing in Nepal


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Mother holds out hope for daughter missing in Nepal



Connie Sacco sits in the room with the TV playing soft, comforting music. An orange cat climbs on her lap and purrs. A laptop glows by her side, and the phone sits at her feet.

She wanted to talk in here, in the living room of her Greeley home, because she wanted to get out of the other room, where she's spent most of her time since her daughter, Aubrey, went missing in Nepal after April 29. It's nice to hear a little music. The house has been too quiet — like a morgue, she says. Then she laughs a bit. She's only half-kidding.

It's still pretty quiet through the music and the purring, until the phone rings, and Amanda Allen, Connie's future daughter-in-law, explodes like a sprinter out of the blocks to find it. Connie can't find the phone until she looks down at her bare feet. She sheepishly apologizes to Amanda.

As the conversation about her daughter goes on, she knows she can't stay there. She sighs and asks you if you want to see the other room. She gets up before you answer. She and a bevy of friends, family and neighbors call it Ground Zero. A piece of paper on the door — a sign, of sorts — says so in black marker, and underneath, it says “Glitterville.”

A map of Nepal and the line of trekking trails, including the one where Aubrey vanished, is marked with pins, neon sticky notes and scrawled notations. Connie stands before the map and starts talking. She talks about this trail, and how Aubrey was seen two days after she signed in at Langtang National Park. A hotel clerk thinks she had pizza and a Coke. Connie is doubtful. Aubrey does not drink Coke.

She points out other trails and areas where Aubrey could be, where others may have seen her, where she could have gone astray. She could have gone down here, or maybe she went to see some chanting monks down this way, only if she did, it's hard to find your way back. Connie talks nonstop about all of it. If she were a TV show, she would be well past a commercial break.

The map is marked from hours, days and weeks of phone calls, e-mails and Facebook messages from a seemingly endless corps of people wanting to help search for her. Her husband, Paul, and her son, Crofton, both guided by family friend and Nepal native Dinesh Raj Shakya, are over there now, looking for her, and though this makes her think her work here is done, she knows that's not true. She won't let herself be done. Most of this work, because of the 12-hour difference, is done during graveyard hours. Her face shows it. She's exhausted. But she'll sleep when Aubrey's home. Aubrey, then, will clean the house, she says. Then she laughs. She's not kidding.

She is asked if, maybe, she's a little obsessed with the search. She gives you a wry smile.

“I think we obsess about our children since the day they are born,” Connie said. “I'm a mother. This is my job now. It's my job to be obsessed.”

And since Aubrey's disappearance, she's been working overtime.

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Connie will admit she's a bit of a worrier, and that worrying nature — a common trait among mothers — doesn't exactly mesh with Aubrey's free spirit.

Aubrey teaches yoga. She is an artist. She loves and creates and paints bright and colorful things — Aubrey called it glitter — and that's why Connie's asking friends to attach sparkly, flashy ribbons — glitter, if you will — to their trees and mailboxes. But nature's flashiest, most colorful creatures are birds, and many birds migrate, flying thousands of miles across the world, and so, even though she was only 23 and tiny, she was a traveler. This, of course, made Connie nervous.

Connie once called the police because she didn't hear from Aubrey the whole night, and her daughter was furious. She was in college by then. But Connie called it holding her daughter accountable. She simply needed to know where she was.

This is what worries Connie the most. She believes Aubrey is alive. She calls Aubrey “her little girl” when she says this. Connie believes if Aubrey was dead, she would know it. She would feel dread, and though the stress and worry is compounded daily, she doesn't feel that black, hopeless gnawing in the gut that something is really wrong. But Aubrey understands her, Connie said, and she finds it hard to believe that her daughter would string her along like this. She never has before.

Still, there are many plausible theories for this, including a Maoist strike that stranded travelers the day after Aubrey's expected return, the loss of any communication, even the Internet, as a result of that strike, or the trails that braid off from the safe trek through Langtang. One of those trails strands many trekkers because it's hard to climb out of the area once they head down to the bottom. Though Aubrey is tiny, she's tough. Amanda, who is also one of Aubrey's best friends as well as her brother's fiancé, remembers playing soccer against her when they were both young and being afraid of her speed and ferocity.

That's why Connie stays in the house, afraid to even go to the mailbox, because the phone might ring, and it might be her. She stays up all night, almost every night, sifting through hundreds of e-mails, praying one of them will be from Aubrey. She hasn't worked in weeks, though she jokes she has an understanding boss: She works in her husband's law office.

Her youngest, Morgan, doesn't know what to do, and Connie keeps telling him to seek out the support of his friends. Connie has that support, she says, and she thanks God for it. Neighbors pop by, bringing meals or, more importantly, their company, and Amanda has slept there every night. Without that support, Connie said, the crushing quiet of the house, especially now that her husband and son are gone, would probably drive her insane.

She needs help monitoring the phone, the e-mails and the possible sightings. It is all-consuming.

Ah, those sightings. In most missing person cases, there are hours of worry, but those are coupled with moments of hope, even elation, and all of the ups and downs are wearing her down.

The last time was the worst. This was the day before Saturday, when Aubrey was due back on the flight home, and Connie heard through their extensive contacts that a small, foreign woman who did yoga was needing to get home to catch her plane. It HAD to be her. Connie already had plans for her. Like cleaning the house after they celebrated her return.

It was 2 a.m., but Connie was so excited she got everybody up, and they gathered together in Ground Zero, by the map, in their exhaustion, and waited anxiously as the hotel owner brought the phone to the woman. And the woman answered with a French accent. That was crushing.

“It was hard to go to bed that night,” Connie said.

Still, even if that disappointment led to another sleepless night, it also showed just how much help they really have. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal, soldiers, the police, volunteer searchers, even the Maoists who shut the city down are all out looking for her. Strangers are now friends, including Scott MacLennan, founder of The Mountain Fund, which works to eliminate poverty in mountain communities. MacLennan has devoted a ton of his time and energy to help the Saccos find her. There are many other examples, too many to mention, but another stands out: A helicopter pilot said he would devote his time to searching for her if they only paid for his gas.

A Facebook post Thursday from a hiker on the Langtang trek said he was thinking of Aubrey and that there were posters with her photo everywhere and that locals, including volunteers, were engaged in trying to find her.

Representatives from the embassy told Connie just a couple days ago that they've never seen such an organized search in their lives. Connie said her family and friends are “winging it,” but they have a weapon.

“When you're obsessed to find your daughter,” Connie said, “you can put together some pretty amazing searches.”

All of this continues to give Connie hope, and that hope is what allows her to sleep at times, even if it's only for a few hours. There is hope everywhere. She sees it every time she passes another house with those glittery ribbons on their tree trunks. It means others are thinking of Aubrey. Maybe not as much as her. But even if they keep her in their thoughts for a little time every day, it increases the chances that she'll be found.

Connie presses a glitter ribbon pin in your hand. She reaches down into a box by the door and cuts a long swath of sky blue and yellow ribbons. That is for your tree or house.

“Spread the word,” she said. “Until Aubrey comes home.”

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