Officials
said Ms Wu had told friends she was unable to move the lower half of her body
after a fall of some 20-30 metres (65-100ft) but was able to give her
co-ordinates.
"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," Lin Cheng-yi, from the
Nantou County Fire and Rescue Services, said.
Taiwanese
rescue teams are trying to retrieve the body of a hiker who became famous on
social media for taking selfies on top of mountain peaks dressed in a bikini.
Gigi
Wu - dubbed the "Bikini Climber" by fans - used a satellite phone on
Saturday to tell friends she had fallen down a ravine in Taiwan's Yushan
National Park and badly injured herself. Rescue helicopters struggled to reach
her because of bad weather and officials eventually located her lifeless body
on Monday.
New
Taipei City native Ms Wu (36) built up a sizeable social media following
through photos of herself at the top of mountains dressed in bikinis. She
usually wore hiking clothes to scale the mountains, only changing into a bikini
once at the top.
In
an interview last year, she said she had scaled more than 100 peaks in four
years.
Taiwan
is a largely tropical country, but it boasts a spine of towering peaks down its
middle that regularly top 3,000 metres. In the winter, temperatures routinely
drop well below freezing on the slopes.
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