HELP locate missing biker on his way to Bolivia

[akosiwa]

Update - 10/08/19: Finally some light in the darkness! Nicolas is now actively searched by the Bolivian police. He's also become a Bolivian TV and YouTube star - not sure he'll be ecstatic about this. We've started receiving reports of sightings in Bolivia, which we are still verifying. Our hopes are definitely up!

BTW We = a bunch of wonderful bikers and people from various places in Bolivia. Special thanks also to the Belgian consulate in La Paz, who have generously assigned a lawyer to accompany me to the police and the immigration office.
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Update - 04/08/19: Nicolas crossed over to Bolivia at Tilali and registered with Bolivian immigration at Puerto-Acosta on June 16.
There's no trace of Nicolas leaving Bolivia. We are now focussing our search on Bolivia. He should have gone through La Paz on June 17 or so.
Please forward this post to anybody you know who is traveling in Bolivia, or was traveling in Bolivia at the time
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Hi,

My brother Nicolas Holzem, who has been biking across South America since April, hasn't been in touch since June 15. He was in Cusco at the time and he was planning to continue towards Bolivia, and finally travel down to Buenos Aires. I've contacted friends and relatives, nobody has heard from him since then.


Nicolas is 44 and about 1.7m tall. He's a very experienced biker. His ride is a white Suzuki DR650 (registration Y34412) he bought second-hand in Vancouver August 2018. I've attached 2 pics of him as well as one of his bike.


Nicolas speaks Spanish fluently and is likely to have been in contact with locals quite a lot. His mother tongue is French. Apart from Spanish and French he also speaks English and Polish. He's a Luxembourg citizen and lives in Krakow, Poland.


We're obviously frantic with worry and would be grateful for any information that might help us locate him.

Catherine

[Redtape]

Catherine.
Fully understand your concerns.
The travelling community's will be on the look out and enquire for Nicolas no doubt.

I have been on the road a long time and also not reported "back home" at times and this concerns many.
Its easy just getting involved in something local and forgetting .

All will be well. We are on the look out.

[mika]

Hi there,

I have send it to some friends in Bolivia.

More later.

mika

[Pastourer]

Hi!

Did you post it in http://www.advrider.com ?

It's another traveller community that may help. I'm from Spain, so please, just tell me if I can help you with translations to spanish or whatever...

[akosiwa]

Yes, I did. Here's the link: https://advrider.com/missing-person-...south-america/

[akosiwa]

Hi Pastourer, Are you maybe able to contact the border personnel at Tilali crossing and try to find out if they've registered his crossing? My Spanish is just too basic. Obviously we've alerted police and consulates but they are so slow - I just talked to the consulate in Lima, they're still waiting for some authorization to formally start the search.

[AndyT]

I was in Peru and Bolivia in 2006, so this is old, but at that time I was often, but not always, asked for my passport number and nationality when checking in to a hotel or hostel that catered to foreigners. I assumed it was for cases like this, where a foreigner turned up missing. I doubt that the info goes to a database or anything, but his passport info is likely in some hotel registry somewhere, if there was a way to find it. Not sure if this helps, but something to think about.

Hoping for the best.

[Pastourer]

Originally Posted by akosiwa

Hi Pastourer, Are you maybe able to contact the border personnel at Tilali crossing and try to find out if they've registered his crossing? My Spanish is just too basic. Obviously we've alerted police and consulates but they are so slow - I just talked to the consulate in Lima, they're still waiting for some authorization to formally start the search.

I will try!

[gatogato]

https://www.facebook.com/NicInBolivi...mCMDvIFxGn-mYV

https://www.facebook.com/NicInBolivi...mCMDvIFxGn-mYV

[Largo703]

Nicolas has an account and posted to this group as NicoGSX with last login on Aug 16th 2019. Maybe admins can track location and IP of his last activity here?

[Tim Cullis]

Nicolas' last post was in June which doesn't help. The activity on 16 August was apparently just a log in, I don't think there's any record kept of the IP address of that but I will check.

[chris]

Originally Posted by Tim Cullis

Nicolas' last post was in June which doesn't help. The activity on 16 August was apparently just a log in, I don't think there's any record kept of the IP address of that but I will check.

You should be able to check in the HU moderator control panel. Search there on the user name. There are first and second level IP addresses. Grant will know what to do.

With the IP address you can geo-locate to some accuracy where the device that logged in was.

[Grant Johnson]

I have a list of all his IP addresses, BUT there is no DATE order, only numeric. No way to tell what was the last one.



131.196.14.60
132.184.130.154
164.163.49.23
179.6.216.237
181.136.16.138
181.143.202.178
181.176.184.50
186.170.131.70
186.179.100.153
186.70.45.232
187.131.209.142
187.131.231.249
187.189.154.14
190.124.23.14
190.124.23.7
190.140.86.165
190.235.152.119
190.28.145.19
190.90.47.164
201.143.66.112
50.98.132.238
80.82.24.130
80.82.24.131
80.82.24.132
80.82.24.137
80.82.24.140
96.55.44.130


I have date order logs but only back to November.


I use https://www.ip-tracker.org/lookup/whois-lookup.php to lookup IP addresses, works pretty well. But, no way to be sure of his route.


Any volunteers are welcome to try to figure it out, the above should be enough to work out a ROUGH route.

[Toyark]

Using Grants' IP addresses, I plotted these on a map and numbered them in the same order as his list.
Please Note
These waypoints are absolutely NOT in any order (despite my sequencing them with numbers)
And
These are absolutely NOT precise geo-locations- just as-near-as using IP data
to help plot into Basecamp.
You also have to take into consideration the possibility that he may have used a VPN (the IPs' in Krakow are a slight oddity)
GPX file attached -
Sadly, without any date data, a route can only be guessed at but would be useless. The only possibly useful info is the number of different IPs' possibly indicating a number of days in the same/similar location - and that is assuming one log on a day.