Thread 2836412

A Norwegian hiker has gone missing in northern manitoba Canada . He was planning on hiking from Ontario to Alaska. Police have so far found his back pack and rifle. His last coordinated on his GPS placed him next to a river

I hope they find him.

>>2836412 (OP)
How do they know he wants to be found?

>>2836481
He told someone he was gonna be somewhere the next day but never showed up

He's dead. Northern Canada is no joke, it'll humble even the most experienced /out/doorsmen

>>2836507
It looks like the surface of the moon with all the little ponds and swamps

>>2836510
Yep. He fell in the water and died. He's a goner

>>2836412 (OP)
Probably got mauled by a bear

>>2836412 (OP)
>He was planning on hiking from Ontario to Alaska

>>2836554
Lars Monsen did something similar

>>2836412 (OP)
He had a rifle? They don't even let Canadians carry those, how come a Norwegian was allowed?

>>2836561
Canadians can carry some rifles

>>2836554
Norway has a long tradition with that. Same with skiing over the poles.

>>2836561
You can buy and carry guns in Canada retard. Stop listening to everything stupid people on 4chan tell you

>>2836554
plenty of norgayans do such hikes, you can find some online like lars monsen and jens kvernmo. canada is just norway x 100 and when you have hiked all over it you look for the same just bigger.
>>2836561
"rifle" i dunno the common gun in such scenario is a pump shotgun with slugs for bear defence, its still viable for hunting big game and smaller game down to birds with birdshot. doubt a norwegian hiker went off with just a rifle.

>>2836615
norway looks more rocky. This is just endless 100ft deep muskegs

>>2836621
yeah you picked the worst place in canada and its crap. its still not a terrain completely foreign for a norwegian /outist. most would still choose a different path, jens kvernmo went the great slave lake path and intended to film his journey but once he got there he was so accepted by the locals due to his survival skills he just ditched the camera and stayed there for a year.

>>2836412 (OP)
My money's on kilt by a bear while shitting. Never put down your rifle. Never.

>>2836734
>>2836734
the cops said his backpacked was water logged. He probably got swept away while crossing the river and got separated from his bag and gun.

He checked in at a lodge on Aug 11th. They said he only had oats left for food and no tent just a tarp

>>2836744
>tried to cross an 1km wide river delta
damn im ashamed of being norwegian.

>>2836412 (OP)
>He was planning on hiking from Ontario to Alaska.
LOL fucking tourists..

>>2836755
shouldve paddled across in a york boat they were literally invented for this exact reason

>>2836773
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSVaYsZy2GhKYCuAipDuTF8MCJgVjZ7RM&si=j2UHn9bYaEgWZE3K

I listened to a true survival story podcast about a guy who tried to paddle down the Firth River on a 12 day trip (by himself) he had to get rescued obviously, as a foreigner northern Canada sounds like no fucking joke

>>2836412 (OP)
This is what happened. When attempting to cross the Hayes, he slipped or was pushed over by the force of the water. In doing so, he lost his gear, which was pushed downriver faster than he could recover them or think about them. Very likely that in spite of this situation, he made the crossing but now without any gear and soaking wet. Unable to start and fire and without any possibility for shelter since he was trekking an endless swamp, he developed hypothermia overnight and died. Given he was in a very populated polar bear area, realistically the only animal he had to worry about, they likely ate most his corpse. What was left of it was picked off by birds and smaller mammals. Eventually they'll find some of his bones or remains, maybe when the temperatures drop a little. And with some luck, we won't have to hear anything more about the aboriginals pretending to be more hardcore than SAR/rangers, but this story is from Canada, so this is more unlikely than him surviving. He died in the wild doing something ambitious. This is infinitely better than dying in a hospital or in a bed. Not another dime need be spent on this pointless search. Presume him dead and leave what's left to rest where it ended. But then again, we're talking about Norwegians, so that's also unlikely.

He is indeed dead.
>Steffen Skjøttelvik, who has been living in Canada since 2023, was going on a 10,000-kilometer trip by dog sled. He has been reported missing since August 14. "The family realizes that hope is lost, but wants to continue the search to find Steffen and bring him home," says Dyresen. It has not been confirmed that the Norwegian has lost his life. It was VG that first reported the case.

>So far, his two dogs, his backpack, his rifle and his parka have been found.

>>2836554
Retard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Monsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HoHfqgyia8&list=PLAF1A219B60F9A35C
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/canada-paa-tvers

They found his body on the other side of the river :( only 4km from his destination

>>2836879
Yeah he was

>>2837079
Hubris or desperation at the river crossing has its consequences.

>>2837079
nature gives and nature takes.
i know the pure terror in a near death scenario outdoors, i also know thats how i want to die.
he was lucky, he didnt die in an elderly care home thinking of what he could have done, he did it and died doing so.

>>2837085
Based larper

RIP

>>2836561
everyone in rural canada has guns nigga. we just don’t open carry at wal marts
like americlaps.

>>2836606
I'll start with your post.

>>2837112
Okay, that was zased

>>2836632
That sounds comfy and based

>>2836755
What's up with retards walking into rivers lately? How fucking stupid do you have to be?

>>2836878
The Norwegians are welcome to fund their own search for their retard's corpse.

>>2837079
It was Ayys.

>>2837129
Maybe it was shallow but fast flowing so it looked easy

>>2836755
>>2836855
>>2837129
>>2837140
I understand trying to plan for every detail isn't feasible, but he had to know about major river crossings right? what was his plan? can't be fucking around with that shit

>>2837343
Maybe his plan wasn't very good.

>>2837343
On the one hand, because of where he entered along Hudson Bay, crossing the Hayes was necessary, as it had been for the fur traders once upon a time. On the other hand, I think it's very clear he underestimated the difficulty of that by overestimating and concentrating too much on other, admittedly very difficult, things he had to do beforehand (and afterwards, had he lived). I would also give him some credit in that I suspect he's crossed many rivers before but was flustered and exhausted by how shitty it was to actually move around where he was hiking. I think he decided to take a big gamble and everything went wrong. That's how it happens out there no matter how skilled or clever you are. It can happen to anyone. I doubt he was a moron.

>>2837343
said he started at James Bay, so he made it over 400 miles. sometimes you just get unlucky

>>2836412 (OP)
RIP
legendary adventure

https://people.com/missing-hiker-steffen-skjottelvik-found-dead-dream-trip-11796933

Authorities and community rescuers were conducting a ground search on the west side of the Hayes River in Manitoba for Steffen Skjottelvik, 29, on Sunday, Aug. 24, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.
A helicopter pilot then told the search parties that he may have spotted the missing hiker’s body near the site where Skjottelvik’s jacket was found days earlier.

“Gillam RCMP and Parks Canada officers, along with the community searchers from Fort Severn, attended to the provided location on foot and confirmed that the body recovered on shore was that of the missing 29-year-old Norwegian hiker,” the RCMP’s statement read.

An autopsy was scheduled for the morning of Monday, Aug. 25.

>>2837112
>>2837115
you annihilated him anon

>>2836855
I have to amend my story. As it turns out, and very surprisingly, the cause of death was drowning. I think that means he made a catastrophic miscalculation (putting into question his expertise) or everything conspired to go wrong at the exact same time. Him getting wet was obvious. Drowning strikes me as very odd. Oh well.

>>2837378
Why did you reply to my post?

>>2837079
>only 4km from his destination
Get-there-itis claims another victim.

>>2837570
Anon he was swept away by a river
...

>>2837573
>Anon he was swept away by a river
4km away from his destination

>>2837140
I have worked up at a place called moosonee closer to james bay. similar sized river. you'd have to be fucking insane to try and cross something like that. river was 2.5km across, fast, rough and cold. it took 5 minutes to drive across in winter. probably close to 4c or something in the height of summer. i don't know why europeans love to come here to die so much.

May his soul rest in peace.

So whats the lesson here? Always carry a basic survival kit on your person? How could he have recovered from this?
(In this case im assuming >>2836855 is what exactly happened)

>>2837706
>So whats the lesson here?
Don't go hiking alone in the remote northern Canadian swamps. Or don't go hiking there at all, preferably, unless you're a masochist.

>>2837706
Make a raft to cross

>>2837706
taller shoes

Canadian /out/ is next level shit. brutal

F to pay respects
Wish this had a happier ending

At least he wasn't eaten/sacrificed by feral canadian jeets though, I guess

>>2836563
those were experienced with teams, many of which died or provided valuable skills and don't get recognition like the main leader. just because you're from norway and go skiing doesn't mean you ae fit for that. it's not genetic. norwegians get hypothermia just as easily as anyone. and they are not immune to getting killed by brown bears.

>>2836412 (OP)
Europeans love to kill themselves in the americas. I'm from az and every year somebody from europe decides to go die in the grand canyon

>>2838894
It's always the Grand Canyon or Death Valley. Heat and vaguely difficult terrain just filters yuros for some reason.

Autopsy confirmed the obvious that he drowned. Wonder what's going to happen to his dogs.

>>2838898
Why did he try to ford at a super wide delta?

>>2838901
What’s the other option?

>>2838941
Cut down a km worth of trees, build a bridge?

>>2838941
Make a coracle

>>2838896
>or Death Valley
Man, how could anyone know that would be the place.
I did almost kms in AZ one year. Thankfully I am smart enough to wade into new(ish) conditions and it was a short hike, but I took 2L of water and ran through it in 45min. Struggled to get back to car.
I know people acclimate and go jogging 10km in summer there, but it can def take you unawares if you overcommit and under prepare.
And it was like the tenth time I've been to AZ.

>>2837706
>Always carry a basic survival kit on your person?
He had a backpack full of stuff, anon, what is "a survival kit" exactly?
The actual lesson
>don't attempt a major river crossing without at least a packraft
This issue has been solved for some time. He didn't want the burden of a packraft, but he was in terrain where it was essential. People hike the grand canyon with packrafts, you can certainly hike northern Canada with one.

>>2836412 (OP)
poor guy but that terrain eats people for lunch. its been dangerous to wander though since before the written word.

>>2836412 (OP)
Body has been located

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/steffen-skjottelvik-family-first-nations-1.7622290

>>2837080
i agree he was, everything i read about him seems to suggest he rushed it and somewhat underestimated the dangers. its the downside of having old video blogs like Lars on yt, it seems so easy. in reality it took him years, often waiting and preparing for months just to cross a river, or eventually giving up and asking some local inuits to ferry him over.
>yeah we will do that, we plan a hunting trip there next month, we will take you with us
so you wait....
he didnt wait.

>>2838894
Arizona is unique in that after heat and cardio vascular deaths, falls then drownings followed by freeze deaths are also yearly occurrences. We got HD videos of Australians and Arkansans being helicopters off of baby mountains in 30 inch deep snow in November and December, not even the snowiest months. I've also seen california and Arizona (valley fags) plates rolled over in a ditch off of a snowy highway before.

>>2838894
that can easily be said about americans, asians and south/central europeans in norway as well. its all about being in a place you dont know, with minimum gear, no knowledge of risk and totally unprepared for changing weather.
americans and germans seem to be the worst here, i dont think its only their numbers that make them stand out but its a lack of respect of how brutally nature just kills you. it doesnt give a fuck.