The Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins, who fell off a cliff while hiking in the Mount Rinjani (3.726 meters high) towards the top of a volcano in Indonesia was found dead. The information was published this Tuesday (24th) by her family in the Instagram profile @resgatejulianamarins, in which official information about the rescue was being released.
“Today the rescuers managed to arrive at the point where Juliana Marins was. With great sadness we inform that she didn’t resist. We continue to be very grateful for all prayers, messages of kindness and for the help that we have received”, says the post published right after 11 o’clock (at Brasilia Standard Time/GMT-3) on this Tuesday.
She fell off a cliff that surrounds a hiking path which directs to the top of the volcano on Saturday (21st). She was 650 meters down from the point she fell off. Since then, she coped without any water, food or coats and the rescue was discontinued due to weather-related reasons.
Juliana was 26 years old, and she was from Niterói (in the state of Rio de Janeiro). Since February, the young woman has been traveling through Southeast Asia. According to tourists who saw Juliana through drone images, she was weakened, and couldn’t move.
Frustrated rescue attempts
Since Saturday (21st), attempts to rescue Juliana Marins were frustrated due to weather conditions in the area that varied abruptly. Yet on Tuesday morning (24th), her family confirmed the “impossibility to continue searches by helicopter because of the current weather condition”. In Indonesia, a country 15 time zones ahead of Brazil, it was approximately 3 p.m.
“At the moment we are counting on the strong help from the embassy people that are at the location and all the information released here at @resgatejulianamarins are authorized by them. Besides that, many authorities are present, reinforcing the urge and the compromise in rescuing”.
On Monday (23rd), the rescue was also suspended for the same reasons. “It has already been said they would stop at dusk because they don’t operate at night”, informed the family.
“Apparently this is the pattern during this time of the year in which the weather behaves this way, they are aware of this and they don’t accelerate the process! [The rescue is] slow, without planning, competence or structure”, complained her family on social media.
Also, her family denied that the young woman received water, food or coat, as it was stated by Indonesian authorities and by the Brazilian embassy in Jakarta.
“We received, with much preoccupation and apprehension, the information that is not real that rescuers gave food, water or coats to Juliana. The information that we have until now is that they didn’t manage to arrive where she is, because ropes didn’t have the sufficient size, besides low visibility”, said Mariana Juliana’s sister, in the Instagram profile.
The National Park of Mount Rinjani temporarily closed the trek towards the top of the volcano in order to hurry the rescue of the Brazilian tourist. “The climbing trail of Pelawangan Sembalun to the ridge of Rinjani is temporarily closed, from June 24th of 2025 (three days after the accident) for undetermined time (until the process of evacuation is concluded)”, said the announcement published early on Tuesday, at Brazilian time zone.
