DAVIS (U-WIRE) – Hikers and searchers discovered a body in Yosemite National Park on Saturday evening that may belong to a UC Davis exchange student who was reported missing two weeks ago, park officials announced Monday.

The Mariposa Coroner’s Office will be conducting an autopsy on the body at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to verify whether it is 25-year-old Hyundo Ahn, an alumnus who had been enrolled in the UCD-Korea University extension program. He was reported missing on July 20.

Some hikers walking on the trail of Tenaya Canyon discovered the body, and shortly after some of Yosemite National Park’s search-and-rescue members came across it as well, according to the park’s spokesman Scott Gediman.

Gediman said it is likely the body is Ahn’s, considering the amount of time he’s been missing and where the corpse was discovered.

“It does look like it’s his body. … The time line makes sense,” he said.

Several hundred feet from the body, the searchers also found a deserted backpack, and Gediman speculated that Ahn could have taken off his backpack to get across a river or stream.

Ahn embarked on a solo hiking trip beginning at the John Muir trail in Yosemite Valley on June 20. He was expected to return to Davis by July 18 but never showed up, and his host family reported him missing two days later.

Park officials have contacted Ahn’s parents, and though they flew back to South Korea on Sunday, they will be returning to Yosemite sometime this week.

“I met his parents and I was with them for a long time,” Gediman said. “I’m just very upset about this; they seem like such wonderful people.”