{"id":95071,"date":"2025-08-25T05:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:05:06","slug":"body-of-missing-norwegian-hiker-found-in-manitoba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95071\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing Norwegian hiker found in Manitoba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, was hiking from Fort Severn to York Factory, Man. when he went missing<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">GILLAM, Man. \u2013 The search for a missing Norwegian hiker has ended in tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Gillam RCMP on Sunday announced the body of Steffen Skjottelvik was located on the banks of the Hayes River, not far from where his jacket was found on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">In a Facebook Post, Manitoba RCMP said officers from the Gillam detachment, Parks Canada and community searchers from Fort Severn on Sunday morning. At approximately 10:20 a.m.,\u00a0Skjottelvik\u2019s body was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Police confirmed the body was that of the 29-year-old missing hiker, who was hiking with two dogs from Fort Severn, Ont. to York Factory, Man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">He went missing last week and police tracked his GPS device to the area where his body was recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The body was transported to Gillam and will be sent to Winnipeg, where an autopsy is scheduled for Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, was hiking from Fort Severn to York Factory, Man. when he went missing GILLAM, Man.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,55521],"class_list":["post-95071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-steffen-skjottelvik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95071","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=95071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}