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.
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