Hadi Nazari: Missing hiker found alive after 13-day search of Australian national park
CNNBrisbane, Australia CNN — A 23-year-old hiker whose disappearance sparked a nearly two-week-long land and air search of dense Australian wilderness has been found alive, authorities said Wednesday. Hadi Nazari was last seen by friends on December 26 as he walked down a trail to take photos in Kosciuszko National Park, south of Sydney in the state of New South Wales. “He called out to them and disclosed who he was, and that he’d been lost in the bush.” Hadi Nazari seen with hikers who found him in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. Spliet said Nazari seemed to be “in really good health.” Nazari told rescuers he had found two granola bars at an abandoned hut, but “that’s pretty much all that he’s had to consume over the last two weeks,” Spliet said.