Body of missing ‘glacier chaser’ influencer Wang Xiangjun who documented impacts of climate change found by police in Tibet
- Wang abandoned factory work and bought a camera to travel across China documenting shrinking glaciers
- He disappeared last year while travelling in Lhari County in Tibet
Tibetan police announced they believe they have found the body of internet influencer “glacier chaser” Wang Xiangjun, who went missing while visiting a glacier last year.
Local police in Lhari County revealed a body was found on Sunday in a notice posted today on Wechat.
“After initial investigations, the body seems to be that of missing person Wang Xiangjun. We are in the process of further identifying the body according to legal procedures,” the notice said.
In December, Wang’s younger brother logged onto his Kuaishou video streaming account and told the public his brother had fallen into a glacier.
“My brother is staying in his favorite waterfall. I hope you won’t go there and make a fuss, please respect the dead,” he said.
“He has been obsessed with glaciers all his life, and dedicated his life to it. That’s his best place to be,” he said.
Wang was born in 1990, in Guangan, southwest China’s Sichuan province, to farmer parents. In 2010, he went to work at a factory in Shenzhen in southern China’s Guangdong province.