{"id":217657,"date":"2026-01-05T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217657\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:11:12","slug":"radar-to-be-used-in-search-for-tramper-missing-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217657\/","title":{"rendered":"Radar to be used in search for tramper missing for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Graham<\/p>\n

\nGraham Garnett, 66, was meant to return on 30 December.
\nPhoto: Supplied \/ NZ Police\n<\/p>\n

Sections of Kahurangi National Park in the Upper South Island will be closed while rescue teams use radar technology to find a tramper who has gone missing in the area.<\/p>\n

Graham Garnett, 66, was expected to return from a tramp in the Baton\/Ellis River area on 30 December, but has not.<\/p>\n

Garnett is about 177cm tall, approximately 100kg, and has grey hair.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Jonny Evans said police will be using a radar tomorrow, and has asked the public to steer clear of the search areas.<\/p>\n

The following areas in the Baton Valley will be closed tomorrow:<\/p>\n

Wilkinson Track
\nBaton Saddle
\nLoveridge Spur Route
\nCowin Spur Track
\nWharepapa Arthur Range – from Mount Star through to the twins
\nWalking track to Flanagans Hut<\/p>\n

Evans said the search will involve the use of Recco detecting equipment.<\/p>\n

“We are keen to hear from anyone who we haven’t spoken with yet, who was in the Baton\/Ellis River area from the afternoon of 26 December, particularly anyone who was around Flanagan’s Hut,” said Evans.<\/p>\n

Further south, police are also still looking for 20-year-old Connor Purvis, who has not been seen since he went to climb Mt Huxley<\/a> on Tuesday last week.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Graham Garnett, 66, was meant to return on 30 December. Photo: Supplied \/ NZ Police Sections of Kahurangi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-217657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}