{"id":222166,"date":"2026-01-07T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:21:07","slug":"kahurangi-national-park-search-defence-force-joins-hunt-for-missing-tramper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222166\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahurangi National Park search: Defence Force joins hunt for missing tramper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSearch efforts today will focus on spurs and large water systems coming off the Wharepapa\/Arthur Range.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The Defence Force is being enlisted to aid in the search for Graham Garnett, who has not been seen for more than a week.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The Defence Force is being enlisted to aid in the search for Graham Garnett, who has not been seen for more than a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice thank everyone involved so far for their ongoing efforts to locate Graham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis includes members of Land Search and Rescue, Department of Conservation, New Zealand Defence Force, Rescue Co-ordination Centre, and commercial helicopter operators.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Search and rescue teams, as well as four specialist canyon teams, are searching for Garnett.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Search and rescue teams, as well as four specialist canyon teams, are searching for Garnett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice still want to hear from anyone who was in the Baton\/Ellis River area from the afternoon of 26 December, particularly anyone who was around Flanagan\u2019s Hut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Garnett, 66, went tramping in the Baton\/Ellis River area of Kahurangi National Park at the end of last year.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Garnett, 66, went tramping in the Baton\/Ellis River area of Kahurangi National Park at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Any sightings or information can be reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/105.police.govt.nz\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/105.police.govt.nz\">105.police.govt.nz<\/a>, clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or by calling 105 using the reference number P064981672.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSearch efforts today will focus on spurs and large water systems coming off the Wharepapa\/Arthur Range. The Defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24752,682,1403,133345,2082,5760,5838,10937,2514,6371,19634,6501,130,3556,111,43,139,69,8143,1870,1240,131,108852,686,2201,80],"class_list":["post-222166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ago","tag-being","tag-defence","tag-enlisted","tag-for","tag-force","tag-help","tag-hunt","tag-island","tag-joins","tag-kahurangi","tag-missing","tag-more","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-search","tag-south","tag-than","tag-tramper","tag-week","tag-went","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222166","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=222166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}