In the rugged Southern Highlands of New South Wales, an eight-day search for eighteen-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper came to a sorrowful close on Thursday morning, when searchers discovered her body in the Nattai National Park wilderness. She had set out on a familiar trail on August 12 and did not return — a disappearance that drew nearly four hundred volunteers and defence personnel into some of the most unforgiving terrain in the region. The search, vast and methodical, could not outpace the land's indifference. What remains now is the quieter, harder work of understanding, and the grief o
Body believed to be missing hiker Lily Hooper found after eight-day NSW search
An 18-year-old bushwalker died while hiking in Nattai National Park, with her body discovered after eight days of intensive searching.