British man missing in Wengen.
Saturday December 26, 2009 - Email this article to a friend

23 year old, Myles Robinson, was last seen at around 1am on Tuesday and a signal was detected from his mobile phone a few hours later on the outskirts of the village.

He had been drinking in a local bar/nightclub and reportedly escorted a girl home.

He was in the resort with his family on an Xmas break.

The Robinson family is a well-known one in the tightly knit British community in the traditonal Swiss ski resort, his family have been coming to the resort for the past 15 years, and everyone is baffled by his disappearance.

Some though are questioning the police's committment to the case and say they are not doing enough.

"There is much anxiety that this case is being treated by local police as a 'missing person' case, and that the possibility of something more sinister is not being considered. Anyone who knows Myles' family knows that the situation is entirely out of keeping, and searches, including tracker dogs and a helicopter with thermal imaging devices, have been entirely unsuccessful," says a PlanetSKI reader who is in the resort but prefers to remain nameless.

"Those who know the terrain and the area are generally in agreement that there is little possibility that Myles departed from Wengen on his own accord,  there is no transport access to the valley at the time he disappeared, or that he wandered off without leaving any trace. However, many people are voicing their opinion that there now seems to be a distinct lack of police involvement, with no house-to-house searches being conducted, and no interviews of pertinent people being carried out. For example, people in the apartment block where Myles was last seen, and who might potentially have heard or seen something, have not been approached."

Myles Robinson was reported as having had his mobile phone with him while in the club on the evening of the 21st. The phone's signal was subsequently traced to an outlying rural area of the village, around 30 minutes' walk away in daylight hours. 

For a few more details see this story on the BBC.

Although it is unclear what has happend in this case each year people die from hypothermia or other injures after drinking too much in ski resorts, but it is not clear at this stage what has happened in to Myles Robinson.

Last winter 2 Britons died in the French resort of Les Deux Alpes and a woman died in Val d'Isere after getting lost on her way home after a night out drinking.

The British Foreign Office has just launched a campaign advising people to drink sensibly while out in the mountains as we reported here on PlanetSKI.

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