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Oroc’s friends posted today on their Go Fund me page that his body had been located under a tree.
He has been missing since late August when a long flight he was taking in Nevada went tragically wrong.
The discovery of Oroc’s body comes a day after two members of the public saw the poster of his missing person and recalled seeing a parachute blowing in the wind.
He then began a search around where his wing was located, about 15 miles from the highway.
Since Oroc’s disappearance, his friends, family, acquaintances and other pilots have been participating in an extensive search and rescue operation to find him, including the use of helicopters with infrared technology.
On August 23 he had taken off from Shoshone Mountain, near Round Mountain in Nevada, and had planned to fly to Wendover with two other pilots.
Those pilots raised the alarm after 24 hours without contact with the respected paraglider, journalist, photographer and artist.
Oroc’s GPS tracker showed that it was last recorded at about 4419.6 meters in the Ninemile Peak area at 2.14pm on Saturday. He had been flying for about three hours and had traveled 86 km.
On the fundraising page created by his New Zealand-based family to raise money to continue the search, the poster said the terrain was unforgiving and thanked everyone who helped find his “beloved.”
As of Sunday night, more than $ 143,459 (US $ 97,000) had been raised.
There were few details about the particular circumstances that led to his death, the page said.
“We cannot thank you enough for your ingenious efforts, the combined intellect and mastery of the team behind the search, which formulated possibilities against all odds, was extraordinary.
“The number of people who showed up who never knew James, or who knew someone who knew James, and the extended community that was affected by his life in some way was powerful to witness.”
His family had previously offered a $ 10,000 reward to anyone who found him.
