Wednesday, July 7, 2010. By Erin Hevern ~ Southeast Missourian

A 2003 Central High School graduate who was in the midst of an eight-week "externship" with the legal adviser to the president of Mongolia died on a hiking trip in one of the country's national parks, according to his father, Randy McLain of Cape Girardeau.

Randy McLain said Tuesday that his son, Colin McLain, 25, who left for Mongolia at the end of May, was reported missing over the weekend after he didn't return from a hiking trip at Bogdkhan National Park, south of the capital city, Ulaanbaatar.