Concern is growing for a Scots botanist missing in Vietnam.
Jamie Taggart, from Argyll and Bute, failed to return from a plant-hunting trip to the northern mountainous region earlier this month.
Inquiries by his family revealed that he has not been seen since November 2, when his rucksack and passport were found at a guest house in the town of Sapa.
Local police and the British embassy in Hanoi were informed of the 41-year-old’s disappearance and searches of the area have been carried out.
Mr Taggart runs Linn Botanic Gardens in the village of Cove on the Rosneath peninsula.
His father Jim Taggart found out he was missing when he failed to appear on a scheduled flight home to Scotland on November 29.
Mr Taggart said: “He is being searched for, so far without a result of any kind.
“I only heard about it when he did not come home on the flight he was booked on. Something has happened to him, but not necessarily an accident on a hill.”
The botanist arrived in a guest house in Sapa on October 30 and left on a motorbike taxi to explore the hills.
Prayers were said for Mr Taggart, a retained firefighter, at Craigrownie Church on Sunday.
