{"id":94520,"date":"2025-08-24T23:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:10:05","slug":"missing-norwegian-trekker-found-dead-in-northern-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94520\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Norwegian trekker found dead in northern Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a Norwegian trekker missing since Aug. 14 has been discovered, marking a tragic end to a more than week-long search and rescue effort in northern Manitoba.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning Gilliam RCMP and Parks Canada, along with community searchers from Fort Severn, were searching the west side of the Hayes River for 29-year-old Steffen Skjottelvik, an RCMP news release said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a helicopter pilot told\u00a0the search parties\u00a0he believed he found the body of the missing hiker a short distance away from where his jacket had been located on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Gillam RCMP and Parks Canada officers, along with the community searchers from Fort Severn, went to the location and confirmed that the body recovered on shore was that of the missing 29-year-old Norwegian hiker.<\/p>\n<p>His body was transported by helicopter to Gillam, Man., where it was then flown to Winnipeg. An autopsy has been scheduled for Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Skjottelvik\u00a0left Fort Severn, Ont., on foot on July 25 with two dogs and planned\u00a0to arrive in York Factory, Man., on Aug. 15 \u2014 a distance of more than 300 kilometres along the shore of Hudson Bay. He didn&#8217;t show up, but one of his dogs did, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say contact was made with him on Aug. 13, when he arrived at Nanuk camp\u00a0\u2014 about 40 kilometres east of York Factory\u00a0\u2014 and stated that he had lost one of his dogs on the journey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A map of northern Ontario shows where Fort Severn and York Factory are.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/steffen-skjottelvik-map.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7638266068759343\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Steffen Skjottelvik left Fort Severn, Ont., on foot on July 25 with his two dogs with the intention to arrive in York Factory, Man., (indicated in red on the above map) on Aug. 15, but he did not arrive as scheduled. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>The man made contact with York Factory on Aug. 14,\u00a0stating his expected time of arrival there would be on Aug. 15, said RCMP\u00a0spokesperson Sgt. Paul Manaigre.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0man was\u00a0an experienced Norwegian wilderness traveller, according to information supplied to police, but Manaigre said the terrain and wildlife in the area where he was travelling is known to be extremely treacherous.<\/p>\n<p>Gillam RCMP\u00a0said they would like to thank the community members from Fort Severn, and Parks Canada who\u00a0assisted with this search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a Norwegian trekker missing since Aug. 14 has been discovered, marking a tragic end to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-94520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}