{"id":601380,"date":"2026-04-12T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:38:12","slug":"police-search-for-hiker-missing-for-24-hours-in-victorias-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601380\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for hiker missing for 24 hours in Victoria’s north-west"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for a missing hiker in Victoria’s north-west who failed to return to his group a day after embarking upon a solo hike.<\/p>\n

Andy, 25, had been camping with 14 other people in the Murray-Sunset National Park but separated from them to hike a nearby track towards the South Australian border yesterday at about 11am.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

The Shearers Quarters camping area is located within the Murray-Sunset National Park in Victoria’s north-west. (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

Police said he was due to return to the Shearers Quarters camping area to leave with the group today but failed to return from his hike.<\/p>\n

Authorities are now searching the area for Andy with help from the Air Wing, Dog Squad, Mounted Branch, Search and Rescue Squad officers and the State Emergency Service.<\/p>\n

There are concerns for the 25-year-old man’s welfare due to his inexperience in hiking and the period of time he has been missing.<\/p>\n

\"Cottage<\/p>\n

Andy was last seen leaving Shearers Quarters camping area to complete the 8-kilometre Millewa South Bore Track nearby. (Source: Parks Victoria)<\/p>\n

Andy is described as being of Asian appearance, 173 centimetres tall with a slim build and was last seen wearing a black hooded jumper, grey trackpants, black steel-cap boots and carrying a black backpack.<\/p>\n

Police are urging anyone with information to contact Mildura Police Station.<\/p>\n

Guides say conditions could disorientate hikers<\/p>\n

Peter Kelly owns the Murray Offroad Adventures tour company with his wife, taking campers on expeditions through the Murray Sunset National Park.<\/p>\n

He described the terrain surrounding the Shearers Quarters as “open woodlands” that were not inherently dangerous, but cloudy conditions could disorientate hikers.<\/p>\n

“The sun is your best sense of providing a direction in the landscape, but [when it’s] cloudy it’s really hard to tell which way you’re going once you’ve got bush all around you,” Mr Kelly said.<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

Offroad Adventures owner Peter Kelly says it’s rare for hikers to get lost in that part of the national park. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)<\/p>\n

He said hikers “very seldom” get lost in that section of the park and was hopeful police would find Andy by the end of Sunday.<\/p>\n

“If you’re sticking to the track, you’re going to turn up somewhere sooner or later,” Mr Kelly said.<\/p>\n

“When they’re stumbling through the bush \u2026 once you hit a track, you’re probably not going to deviate off it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a missing hiker in Victoria’s north-west who failed to return to his group a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,293132,293133,48066,16872,44,96541,1157,33608],"class_list":{"0":"post-601380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-hiker","11":"tag-mallee-district","12":"tag-mildura","13":"tag-missing-person","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police-search","16":"tag-rescue","17":"tag-ses"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}