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An interstate tourist heard calling for help has been found dead on Mount Tibrogargan, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Police were called about 8.40am on Thursday after another person heard her calls while hiking the 364-metre-high mountain, located within the Glass House Mountains National Park and 90 kilometres north of Brisbane.
Officers searched for the woman on foot for several hours, before finding her body about 10.30am.
She was suspected to be walking alone on the mountain.
Police said they would prepare a report for the coroner, and could not provide more detail on the woman’s age or possible cause of death.
Mount Tibrogargan is less than 15 kilometres from Mount Beerwah, where 18-year-old Lorielle Georgina and Jack Thatcher died last month after falling from the summit track.
Georgina fell 60 metres and died at the scene, while her partner, Thatcher, fell 90 metres and was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his injuries days later.
While the 556-metre-high Mount Beerwah is the tallest peak within the Glass House Mountains National Park, both Beerwah and Tibrogargan have hazardous summit routes which include high-risk rock fall areas.
