NSW Police still hopeful of finding missing hiker

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Police are still very hopeful of finding a hiker who's been missing in the Kosciuszko National Park since Boxing Day. They've found personal items belonging to the 23-year-old, and Hadi Nazari's father says the entire family is keeping its hopes up, but that they're also very stressed.  Adriane Reardon reports from the search base camp in Geehi.

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00:00Deep in the heart of Kosciuszko National Park, police are still finding signs of missing

00:07hiker Hardy Nazari.

00:09On Sunday we discovered a campfire area as well as a lighter and a camera and camera

00:14case.

00:15Investigators have confirmed those items belonged to the 23-year-old neurosurgeon student who

00:20went missing while hiking along this path almost two weeks ago.

00:25We're making some inquiries in relation to trying to determine how long ago that little

00:29campfire was lit and that'll give us, if we can determine that, some type of timeline

00:35to when he was last in that specific area.

00:38It follows the discovery of hiking poles and rubbish a few kilometres away.

00:43On the ground and in the air, more than 300 crew from several different agencies are scouring

00:48the bushland alongside members of Hardy's family.

00:53We're very worried.

00:54The entire family, his mother, his sisters, everyone is very disturbed, very stressed.

01:00I hope God does not give anyone else this stress.

01:03This is the start of the Hanel's Spur Trail and it was about three kilometres in which

01:08Hardy was last seen by his two friends on Boxing Day afternoon.

01:12The path looks clear from here but as soon as you enter that bushland it becomes quite

01:16dense, quite thick and very steep.

01:20So with this terrain we're doing about 12 kilometres of searching a day.

01:24Search teams are increasingly focusing their efforts on nearby waterways.

01:28We're very hopeful.

01:29If he's got access to water, that's the reason why we're still out here, we're still active.

01:36I thank the entire Government of Australia, the police, whoever is working for Hardy.

01:41I appreciate them.

01:42God willing, we find Hardy and we take him home.

01:46A hope that no one here is giving up on yet.

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