Missing hiker Hadi Nazari found after surviving two weeks in Kosciuszko

Police said the 23-year-old man survived by finding a hut in the mountains where he discovered two muesli bars.

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00:00About 3.15 this afternoon, police located a 23-year-old male who had previously been

00:07missing in the Kosciuszko National Park.

00:10The circumstances we believe at the moment are that he was called out to some hikers

00:15who were in the area.

00:17He told them that he'd been lost in the bush and was thirsty.

00:21Those people then contacted emergency services.

00:24Paul Eyre, who was in the area, attended and winched him out back into the helicopter

00:30and took him back to the command post.

00:32At the command post, he was assessed by ambulance on the scene.

00:39He's in good health, hasn't appeared to have any significant injuries.

00:45He'll be conveyed to a hospital in the area to be checked out and make sure that he is

00:50fit and in good health.

00:53One of my police at the scene had spoken to him and he relayed that he found a hut

01:00up there in the mountains and there were two muesli bars up there that he's eaten and that's

01:05pretty much all that he's had to consume over the last two weeks.

01:09The further details about where he's been and how he's actually looked after himself

01:15are still yet to be determined and we'll have some police that will speak to him hopefully

01:20tomorrow and just debrief on his experience out there in the bush and actually what's

01:26happened.

01:27I can advise that he's been reunited with his family who are very, very happy to obviously

01:32have him back and very happy with the efforts from police and the other organisations who

01:38assisted in this operation.