‘Dehydrated, tired’ hiker found after five days missing in WA national park

Those officers stayed at the site overnight and resumed the search the next morning, when they found the man safe and well just before 5.30am on Friday, November 22.

They were told he had actually been missing for five days.

“Coming across him walking out of the bush, well, talking to us was fantastic,” Byrne said.

“We definitely were aware that this might have gone another way and we might have been looking for a body rather than a person so to actually have him still alive after what would now be five days was fantastic.

“There was a hug when he found him and there were high-fives between us.”

The hiker was uninjured but was taken to Southern Cross Hospital for assessment. Police noted he was “dehydrated and tired”.

Nine News Perth