strange, unexplained disappearances in the wilderness and odd deaths.

The Fresno B on August 8, 2007, wrote,

Search Haltz for Missing Woman in Yosemite.

No sign of 80-year-old hiker found after eight days scouring the park.

After looking for eight days, search is withdrew.

The 80-year-old, but very fit and very experienced hiker, Otavina Bonaventura,

had disappeared after getting separated from her hiking party.

When her family and friends had first heard of her

disappearance, they'd not been immediately too distressed. They described her as a fitness

fanatic who loved a challenge. And just a year earlier, she'd ridden a bike across Iowa,

a task that took an entire week.

Her daughter Pam Sernovich told reporters, she pushes herself like crazy. She's competitive

with herself. Growing up, she was described as a bit of a tomboy.

She used to climb mountains, said her daughter.

In fact, she travelled internationally to climb in Peru, the Swiss Alps and Patagonia.

She was a retired computer programmer, and she was not known to be unwell nor on any medication. Although some newspapers claimed she suffered from memory loss, this has since been clarified. Her memory was the same as any 80-year-old. No worse.

On learning of her stamina and fitness and strong character,

the park ranger search for her had been expanded geographically.

Adrian Freeman's spokesman for the National Park said,

Clearly, this person breaks all expectations of age and physical condition.

The more we learned about her, the more respectful would became her abilities.

In fact, they expanded their search to 100 square miles as a result.

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