Berries, creek water and two muesli bars: how missing hiker survived in Kosciuszko national park
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After almost two weeks missing in the rugged Australian Alps, Hadi Nazari has been found alive. It’s some of Australia’s harshest, most unforgiving terrain. In Kosciuszko national park, the bush can be so thick in places you can’t see far beyond what’s in front of your face. The ranges are steep and remote. Extreme UV radiation belts down throughout the day and winds whip at you in the afternoon.
![[Searchers scouring bushland in Kosciuszko national park earlier in the week.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/483f3eed19894ff466bae86968719b1405634c67/0_0_906_544/master/906.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
For 13 days missing hiker Hadi Nazari, 23, managed to survive in these conditions – a result police described as “incredible”. The odds were stacked against him. Last week, three hikers died in Tasmania. Nazari had been with two friends, hiking the challenging Hannels Spur trail in the famous park in New South Wales when he went off track to take some photos. The three men had planned to meet at the Geehi campground but Nazari failed to arrive.
Concerned, his friends reported him missing. For almost two weeks, while hundreds of people searched for him on land and from the air, Nazari drank fresh water from creeks, foraged for berries and ate two museli bars he fortuitously found in a hut, police said.
“He relayed that he found a hut up there in the mountains,” the Riverina police district commander, Supt Andrew Spliet, told media on Wednesday afternoon. “And there were two muesli bars up there that he’s eaten, and that’s pretty much all that he’s had to consume over the last two weeks.”.
