The "latest in a string of assaults and disappearances of young women in Nepal’s Himalayan national parks" is a 23-year-old Belgian woman found dead near a hiking trail. Her head had been cut off and placed next to her body. A local inspector says locals "are not cooperating with the investigation." Robbery and rape have been ruled out.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Evan-Gregory/677673198 Evan Gregory

    Yetis.

    • atimoshenko

      Wampas

  • http://twitter.com/cti97 Catalin Istratoiu

    The winter is coming ..

  • WillieNelsonMandela

    Gosh, that’s awful. Even worse when hearing that the locals have a “stop the snitching” policy. When hiking in unfamiliar territory use the buddy system, people!

  • pjk

    hey, thanks for posting the head-choppy-offy story right above the “living rock” one… “huh… sad… OK, let’s see, I’ll just scroll down here and OH MY GOD WTF IT’S A… oh, whew.”

  • aaronmhill

    “A local inspector says locals “are not cooperating with the investigation.” Robbery and rape have been ruled out.”

    Well, I guess it’s good that the police will use other means to get answers from the locals. 

  • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

    Does BoingBoing have anybody suitably anthropologically versed to tell me what local folk instrument was dueling during this?

  • http://www.facebook.com/sojournimages Scott Di Vincenzo

    Um HELLO WORLD    isolated  trekking,  hiking, camping,  street walking    is    BEGGING   for   animal  attacks  criminal   violence !    YOU DO NOT WANDER ANY FOREST without emergency GPS, Pepper Gas Foggers (several) and/or    Satellite Phone      !!

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Well then, let that decapitation be a lesson to her. Spare the machete and spoil the hiker.

  • http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

    This, I grant you, was not a suicide.

    • retepslluerb

      Strictly speaking, we don’t  know that.  Self-beheading is certainly possible with simple devices. 

      The placement of the head and body proves only that someone moved them.