“Reward of $15,000 for anyone who finds Natacha de Crombrugghe or helps us find her with information on her current whereabouts,” reads a poster posted on social media this Saturday by her parents. The girl disappeared in January while on her way to a canyon hike in the Andean highlands in Peru.
Police and rescuers continue to search the Colca River Canyon in southern Peru near where the 28-year-old was last seen on January 24 after leaving a bag backpack in his hotel room in the village of Cabanaconde. The Colca Canyon, with a depth of 4,160 meters, attracts tourists, especially hikers and birdwatchers.
Before offering the reward, the parents of the young woman, Éric and Sabine, put up posters with the slogan “Help us to search” in several villages in the region of Arequipa, in the south of Peru. According to RTBF, they went to Peru for the first time in February, before returning there at the beginning of April.
His last publication dates back to January 20
A law graduate from the Catholic University of Louvain, Natacha de Crombrugghe, who until recently worked for an insurance company in Belgium, according to her LinkedIn profile, last communicated with her parents in Brussels on January 23. She regularly shared photos and comments about her trip to Peru on social media but suddenly stopped doing so.
His last post on Facebook dates back to January 20. “Machu Picchu is not only beautiful, it is sublime,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself smiling with the stone citadel as a backdrop.
According to RTBF, efforts to find the Belgian tourist are continuing. If no leads are ruled out, the police plan to intensify the search when the Colca River recedes, expected in June.