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Help find Prabh Srawn $50,000 reward 5-Jun-2013 At 3:54:38 PM GWil

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Yeah, I can empathise with the panic they must be going through, but the bounty is flat out dangerous. I've got friends who are up there and more closely associated with the services doing the searching, and the police have been asking for private individuals to not go doing this/risk lives. Coppers, etc have deployed multiple choppers with heat sensors and have been amazing in how they've tried to find the guy.

Better news story here: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/lost-hikers-family-searches-for-answers-20130531-2nhmx.html

From the article:

- Search area stretched over 11,000 hectares of rough, mountainous terrain.
- Local police and park rangers were joined by Victorian and Australia Federal Police officers and alpine specialists, State Emergency Service volunteers, firefighters, and ambulance crews on the ground, and Polair, and two rescue helicopters in the air.
- Briefings at 7am, and then teams make their way to allocated search areas by air, road, foot, and snowmobile.
- [Where terrain prevented snowmobile deployment, searchers] had to walk for an hour or two to get into where they are.
- As many as 30 people were in the field at any given time, divided into teams, and sent into terrain where visibility through snow and thick undergrowth could be as low as five metres, and temperatures as low as minus 13 degrees.
- In some areas ropes and harnesses were needed to traverse slopes up to 70 and 80 degrees steep.
- Helicopters would spend hours scanning hills and gullies, sometimes carrying thermal imaging technology.
- Tens of thousands of points of GPS data compared, analysing maps of the terrain, individually numbered snow poles, walking tracks, water courses, snow huts, and more.

Guy was in t-shirt and jeans, and underprepared. Sad, but not worth risking others' lives over, especially on incomplete information.