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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.