Name: Yeon-Sang-Chung
Nationality: Korea
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Height: 1.65m / 5.4ft
Build: Slim
Region of Trekking: Everest
Date Last Seen: Unknown: between December 23, 2025 and January 6
Location Last Seen: Unknown
Missing- Found – Deceased
Maps showing the areas that the person went missing
Due to the nature of maps the exact “pin”position in relation to the missing persons last known location cannot be guaranteed. For any form of exact GPS coordinates contact the search party.
Further information on missing trekker
A Korean trekker, Yeon-Sang Chung, has been reported as missing by TAAN on January 25th 2026. However, it should be noted that the trekker is alleged to have gone missing between December 23, 2025, and January 6th 2026.
Unfortunately there is little information about Yeon-Sang Chung other than he missed his January 10th flight to Korea. Despite trekkers needing a TREK CARD in Monjo or Lukla, Missing Trekker has not heard any information from the Solukhumbu region about his whereabouts. However, Sagamartha National Park have confirmed that he did enter the region.
Despite this, it is still unknown whether Yeon-Sang Chung was trekking alone, or with a guide, or trekking agency. We’ve reached out to the South Korean Embassy for comment.
Updates:
On Friday the 6th of February a body was found. On Sunday the 8th the body was confirmed to be Yeon-Sang Chung.
What we know:
Yeon-Sang Chung was with a guide. At Kongma La Pass the guide apparently left Yeon-Sang Chung close to dusk. The guide and a local from a teahouse in Lobuche went back out to look for him. This is where the information stops. The guide has been out of contact. There is no guide listed at the checkpoints, yet there is hard evidence to say Yeon-Sang Chung was with a guide. The investigation is now with the police.
There is a lot of misinformation about this case appearing online, including jumbled facts. The above is factual. Missing Trekker will not publish photographs of any body recovered out of respect for the person, family and friends.
Anyone with further information should contact:
- Family contact: Dosik Choi (Seoul), Phone: +82-10-6363-1176, and Email: [email protected]
- South Korea Embassy: (+977-1)537-0172,537-7391,537-0417
- South Korea Consular Safety Call Center(24 hours): +82-2-3210-0404(Toll)
Other sources of information and photographs of the missing trekker
More information
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/south-korean-trekker-reported-missing-after-everest-region-trek
https://www.facebook.com/100076266609371/posts/907010211851191/
Hello.
On December 31th. I passed by 2 guys on the way from Chukung to Lombuche. First guy was a Korean guy who looked late 50´s with sunglasses on and all black wears. In addition to that he had a medium sized Camera. 2nd guy was his guide. I just had small talk like 30 seconds with Korean guy.
Long story short
At 3:30pm the guide started moving forward by himself and I asked if Korean guy was fine or not because we had only 1 hour and 30 minutes for the sunset. And the Korean guy was not fit enough from my point of view. I was carefully going down while wondering about Korean guy. I thought about a lot of positive and negative possibilities. I didn’t see any light behind me. At 20 o’clock the guide and an owner and his subordinate came back the way and asked me of Korean guy. The were searching for him. In the end it took me 6 hours to reach Lombuche from the pass. Still this morning he is missing. Is there a Korean guy in Chukung? The owner at National Park hostel just went for finding him with a guide.
After 1 week later, I had a news from my trekking friend, she heard that there was an Asian guy Frozen at Kongma La pass.
I am not sure that the guy I mention is Mr Yeon-Sang-Chung.
Hope my information is useful.
Hello, thank you for sending in this informaiton. There is a real lack of information about Mr Yeon-Sang-Chung, so anything is helpful and gratefully appreciated. I will forward on this information in the hope it will help.
Still this morning he is missing. Is there a Korean guy in Chukung? The owner at National Park hostel just went for finding him with a guide.
I didn’t cut these sentences.
I copied and pasted messages that I sent to my friend on new years.
Also I took some photos on Kong ma la pass. There is a Korean guy just at a corner of it. . I can send you if you need one.
Yes, so far there is no information at all about him. Yes, if you have a photograph that might show him please send it in.
Hello, this is Hyecho Travel Agency based in Seoul.
On behalf of Mr. Chung’s close friends and colleagues, we have deployed a search party to the area.
The team has arrived in Lukla on February 4 and travelling upwards.
We have confirmed Mr. Chung’s Monjo check point entry on Dec 24.
Mr. Chung has also sent a picture to a colleague on Dec 27, and the location of the picture taken seems likely to be Pangboche.
Having said that, Mr. Ota’s encounter does seem to align with Mr. Chung’s speculated itinerary.
If you have any more information you could share with us, however trivial – it would greatly help our search efforts and to bring Mr. Chung home.
Thank you Mr. Ota for what is the only information to come forward in a long time
and thank you David for the work you do.
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