The search for a young hiker who went missing in Kosciuszko National Park is entering its 11th day this morning. Specialist search operators have been flown in to find Hadi Nazari, who was last seen on Boxing Day. Concerns are mounting for his welfare but loved ones are still hopeful he'll be found alive.
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00:00The search is still ongoing here for Hardy Nazari, the 23-year-old man from Melbourne
00:06here in Kosciuszko National Park.
00:09Just for a bit of background, the young man was hiking with friends, hiking along the
00:13Hennell Spur Trail, which is a really remote part of the park and quite a dense hike to
00:19be undertaking.
00:20So, how he split off from friends was they were descending the trail after hiking it
00:25for a couple of days and Hardy decided to take some photos and so the friends continued
00:29down the mountain and split off from each other and it wasn't until a couple of hours
00:34later that his friends then alerted authorities and that's when the search party commenced
00:41and has been since then for about a week and a half now.
00:45The only sign that's been found of Hardy and Kosciuszko National Park around that Hennell
00:49Spur Trail is hiking poles and rubbish.
00:54So they were found near Kosciuszko Creek and that basically refocused the search and has
00:59remained the centre point of the search since for authorities because it's the only clue
01:03they've really had of Hardy since.
01:06Since then they've really had no sign for the young man.
01:10Just to describe the bush that they're dealing with, the authorities, it's dense, rugged
01:15wilderness and it's very intense.
01:17You can go off track 10-20 metres and become seriously lost, that's what I've been told
01:23by authorities.
01:25In terms of the resource efforts, it's a tremendous amount of resources, over 300 personnel, that's
01:31volunteers and paid personnel from National Parks and Wildlife Service to even surf life-saving
01:37choppers are here on the ground and up in the air trying to find Hardy and friends.
01:43What's really fascinating and quite amazing, there's these specially trained bushwalkers
01:47that they've actually flown up into the most remote parts of the track and they've dropped
01:52them into those really inaccessible parts because one, it's really exhausting to get
01:57onto those parts of the bush by foot and two, it gives them a bit of a head start and access
02:04those really fine and close, tight spots.
02:08Six of those hikers actually slept on the track overnight just to get a head start.
02:15But fire and rescue, surf life-saving, even National Parks and Wildlife Service are just
02:20some of the authorities that are part of this huge search in effort to try and find Hardy.
02:27Now Hardy's family has mentioned that they would like to see more, they've publicly mentioned
02:33to New South Wales Police that they would like to see interstate help enlisted but that
02:39has not yet come into fruition.