{"id":601519,"date":"2026-04-12T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:24:11","slug":"hiker-missing-from-victorian-national-park-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601519\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker missing from Victorian national park found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major search was launched for Andy, whose last name has not been given.<\/p>\n<p>He was camping with 14 others in Murray-Sunset National Park in the state&#8217;s north-west.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffHe left the Shearers Quarters camping area by himself to hike the 8km Millewa South Bore Track towards the South Australian border about 11am yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police, \ufeffAir Wing, Dog Squad, Mounted Branch and Search and Rescue Squad officers as well as the State Emergency Service (SES) are searching for Andy.<\/p>\n<p>They were worried as he has limited hiking experience and has been gone for more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>He sheltered in place overnight and was found by local police on West Settlement Track about 1.30pm, unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major search was launched for Andy, whose last name has not been given. He was camping with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-601519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601519","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=601519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}