<p class="title">Taiwanese rescue teams were trying on Tuesday to retrieve the body of a dead hiker who became famous on social media for taking selfies on top of mountain peaks dressed in a bikini.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rescue helicopters struggled to reach her because of bad weather and officials eventually located her lifeless body on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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, told reporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials said Wu had told friends she was unable to move the lower half of her body after a fall of some 20-30 metres (65-100 feet) but was able to give her coordinates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is the latest in a string of social media adventure seekers who have met an untimely end.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week, the bodies of an Indian couple were found at the bottom of a popular overlook in California's Yosemite National Park after hikers alerted officials to their camera equipment at the top of the cliff.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New Taipei City native Wu, 36, built up a sizeable social media following through photos of herself at the top of mountains dressed in bikinis.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She usually wore hiking clothes to scale the mountains, only changing into a bikini once she reached the top.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an interview with local channel FTV last year, she said she had scaled more than 100 peaks in four years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I put on a bikini in each one of the 100 mountains. I only have around 97 bikinis so I accidentally repeated some," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When asked why she did it, she replied: "It just looks so beautiful, what's not to like?"</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Taiwan is a largely tropical country, 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 mountain slopes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lin said their top rescue team hiked for 28 hours to reach the body, only sleeping for three hours because they knew temperatures were rapidly plunging.</p>
<p class="title">Taiwanese rescue teams were trying on Tuesday to retrieve the body of a dead hiker who became famous on social media for taking selfies on top of mountain peaks dressed in a bikini.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rescue helicopters struggled to reach her because of bad weather and officials eventually located her lifeless body on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"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, told reporters.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials said Wu had told friends she was unable to move the lower half of her body after a fall of some 20-30 metres (65-100 feet) but was able to give her coordinates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She is the latest in a string of social media adventure seekers who have met an untimely end.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Last week, the bodies of an Indian couple were found at the bottom of a popular overlook in California's Yosemite National Park after hikers alerted officials to their camera equipment at the top of the cliff.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New Taipei City native Wu, 36, built up a sizeable social media following through photos of herself at the top of mountains dressed in bikinis.</p>.<p class="bodytext">She usually wore hiking clothes to scale the mountains, only changing into a bikini once she reached the top.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an interview with local channel FTV last year, she said she had scaled more than 100 peaks in four years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I put on a bikini in each one of the 100 mountains. I only have around 97 bikinis so I accidentally repeated some," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When asked why she did it, she replied: "It just looks so beautiful, what's not to like?"</p>.<p class="bodytext">While Taiwan is a largely tropical country, 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 mountain slopes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lin said their top rescue team hiked for 28 hours to reach the body, only sleeping for three hours because they knew temperatures were rapidly plunging.</p>