Australia Australia - Prabhdeep Srawn, 25, Canadian, Snowy Mtns, NSW, 13 May 2013

[FigTree]

Prabhdeep Srawn - Family Appeal for Support
•Jun 2, 2013

Hi dotr - Remember when appeal at the time was so strong and and the urgency was real.
So much happened over the years following and then, as like with many other Missing Persons Cases, the Coroners report was released and it just seemed it finalised much of the search.
The search might have ended but the need to find the missing never does.
Thanks for including the clip dotr. Good to see you here.

 

[dotr]

March 3 2020
Behind the scenes of the Illawarra's most incredible police rescues
''Sgt Walsh also assisted in developing a geographical mapping software over the past three years, which will be implemented in the Queensland Police Force.

One of the biggest land searches Sgt Walsh was for missing Canadian bushwalker Prabhdeep Srawn in the Snowy Mountains in 2013.

"It was one of my first big search and rescues," he said. "It was a massive, multi-national search that went over three months.

"Our role was to co-ordinate search areas which is done by trying to predict that missing person's behaviour.

"We ask, where would they go based on their mindset, their knowledge, the terrain, tracks and we use clues such as where they have searched on the internet.

"We think about what they have done to make themselves get lost.


"We were coping international pressure to find him but unfortunately he was never located.

"It was brilliant to be involved in a search of that scale. As the coroner ruled, there really wasn't anything we could have done better."

The Illawarra squad has about a 90 per cent success rate of finding missing people, who often get lost near the Mount Keira Ring Track or off Macquarie Pass.

He said his biggest bugbear was not finding people for their families.''

 

[Marg from Oz]

Every year when summer comes I think of this young man. I keep hoping that the warm weather will reveal his resting place.

 

[dotr]

Bumping with this never noticed until now, video circa 2013.
MP Kyle Seeback raises concern for Prabhdeep Srawn - YouTube

 

[FigTree]

It doesn't help when you forget your password - and then find it years later.

If anyone is coming to this case in 2025 - there is a Coroner's Report available to read for the details of the findings of the search.
The website said it was updated on the 2nd April 2023 but it doesn't specify what part.
In May of this year will be 12 years since Prabhdeep went missing.
NSW Coroner's Report Page: Download

I also noticed that some of the recommendations the Coroner suggested have been implemented or upgraded in the park and on the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service website.

Recommendations from the Coroners Report:
That the National Parks and Wildlife Service consider
implementing better systems so that its website can
be updated and corrected in a timely manner.

 That the National Parks and Wildlife Service consider
reviewing and expanding its educational material
aimed at bushwalkers, both on its website and more
broadly, especially in relation to the potential dangers
found in the Australian Alpine conditions.

 That the National Parks and Wildlife Service and NSW
Police immediately investigate and consider
implementing a web based trip intention lodgement
system.

 That the National Parks and Wildlife Service consider
ways of expanding and publicising its PLB loan
system in the Kosciuszko National Park.

 

[dotr]

January 11, 2025

The little high country house that kept Hadi safe | Canberra CityNews

Lost Melbourne hiker Hadi Nazari most likely found life-saving refuge in a secluded mountain hut known as the Opera House, well-placed sources have revealed.

citynews.com.au

''They were built to last but not immune to unforgiving surrounds, with the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires claiming dozens of culturally-significant dwellings including the last remaining complete quintessential miner’s hut on the old Kiandra goldfields, Four Mile Hut.

Rough terrain at the park has been at the centre of a political fight in recent years over a cull of wild brumbies and is known for its danger, with search and rescue operations not uncommon.

Canadian hiker Prabhdeep Srawn went missing there in 2013 while skier Stephen Crean, brother of former federal cabinet minister Simon Crean, disappeared in 1985 before his remains were found 18 months later.''

13 Mysterious Disappearances in National Parks

Vanished hikers. Disappearing backpackers. Missing children. Are these mysteries in the great outdoors due to accidents, mistakes and bad luck, or evidence of something more sinister?

www.mapquest.com

By: Alia Hoyt & Becky Striepe | Updated: Oct 25, 2024 Huge article.

4: Prabhdeep Srawn, 2013​

A summertime view of Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak. © Ashley Cooper/Corbis
Prabhdeep Srawn was a 25-year-old Canadian army reservist who disappeared from Australia's Kosciuszko National Park, located in the southeastern state of New South Wales. Srawn was studying abroad in Australia in May 2013, when he decided to take a 1,700 mile- (2,700 kilometer-) road trip from the Gold Coast to Melbourne. Srawn rented a van, drove to the park's Charlotte Pass in the Snowy Mountains, and no one has seen him since [source: French].

The search for Srawn began when the rental company discovered that the van wasn't returned. Srawn hadn't told anyone what route or side hikes he was planning, and the search may have started days or even a week after he went missing, since it was the rental company that first reported the disappearance. Searchers figured out his hike plans by looking at the search history on a laptop they recovered from his van [source: Mcllroy].

Srawn's family hired private searchers after Australian authorities called off their search after only two weeks. The investigators used tower data from Srawn's phone and a trained dog to track his trail to a treacherous area called the Western Fall Wilderness [source: French]. Just one day before his van was due back to the rental agency, Srawn embarked on a difficult and time-consuming hike in snowy weather. Why would a trained military reservist make a choice like that? Despite a private search that went on for over a year, Srawn's body has never been recovered.''

 

[dotr]

Refresher, bump..
June 1, 2013 Richard Noone

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/missing-canadian-tourist-prabhdeep-srawns-family-still-hopeful-despite-search-being-called-off/news-story/5790ed5339f2891dd322f20dd73d9bc4

''Under one of the seats inside the van, popular with backpackers, was a laptop containing Google Maps and Wikipedia searches - vital clues indicating his planned route that could have gone a long way to narrowing his position had they been discovered earlier.

There were also more than 30 pages of military lecture notes on "winter warfare" and alpine survival techniques.

Parked near the Charlotte Pass lookout, the van was exactly the sort of vehicle fellow tourists expected to see. For five days, no one noticed.

It was the first in a series of circumstances that would conspire against the Bond University law student.

A reservist in the Canadian army, Mr Srawn parked his van on May 13 with plans to hike the Main Range Walking Track in reverse, aiming to reach Mt Kosciuszko via Carruthers Peak and Mt Townsend.

While it was clear and sunny when he set off, the season's first bitter change swept through, soaking him with 30mm of rain before freezing him under 30cm of snow.''