An 86-year-old Winnipeg man missing for five days in rugged terrain east of the Manitoba capital was found alive and in good condition on Monday.
Joseph Kuz, 86, was found in a swampy bush area near Hadashville about 100 kilometres east of Winnipeg by an RCMP officer on an all-terrain vehicle.
RCMP Const. Miles Hiebert said Kuz was found at around 9:30 a.m., tired and dehydrated. He had been reported missing Friday after being dropped off last Thursday for a hike into a remote cabin.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Mike Hengen, a 30-year member of the force, was the officer who found Kuz. Hengen told CBC News that his ATV was stuck in swampy mud as searchers fanned out for a fourth day of searching for the elderly man.
Deep in the swampy bush Hengen turned off the engine of his ATV and — just as he was struggling to push the machine free — he heard a moaning sound a few metres away. Hengen struggled on foot through 40 metres of bush and found Kuz, flat on his back, in a hollowed-out area full of spruce trees and moss.
Wow, it would be interesting to know who lets an 86 year old man go for a hike by himself?
And a hike to a remote cabin? What would happen if something happened out there?
And it would probably have helped if the man had a cell phone apparatus thingy.
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