Search for missing hiker in Kosciuszko National Park enters its sixth day

The search for missing hiker Hadi Nazari in the Kosciuszko National Park has stretched into its fifth day.

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00:00A multi-agency search is in its fifth day looking for lost Bushwalker Melbourne University

00:07student Hardy Nazari.

00:09The 23-year-old was last seen on the Hannells Spur Trail as he broke away from his group

00:14of friends he was camping with in the Kosciuszko National Park to take photos.

00:20Mr Nazari was last seen at 2.30 last Thursday with police being called later that evening

00:26after he did not return from his walk.

00:29Mr Nazari is known as quite a good bushwalker and an experienced one but Hannells Spur Trail

00:36has quite dense bushland as Inspector Gillian Gibson mentioned earlier today.

00:42It's part of the most rugged terrain in New South Wales.

00:46It's very steep, it's very vegetated and it's quite remote so we've set up increased communications

00:52to increase our capability there.

00:55The heat is also an issue but can I just say that the volunteers and the staff which

01:01have attended have been amazing and the way in which they just put themselves out there

01:06every day trying to find Hardy is so amazing.

01:11Police are appealing that if volunteers would like to go and help with the search for Mr

01:15Nazari to please contact the command centre first and not to go out on their own due to

01:20the density of the bushland.

01:22Police are also appealing that if anyone was in the Kosciuszko National Park along

01:26the Hannells Spur Trail on Thursday afternoon and may have seen anything or been in the

01:32area that could provide assistance to please call Crimestoppers.