Rescue workers were searching through bad weather on Tuesday for the American journalist Alec Luhn, who has been missing for days in a national park in Norway.
Mr. Luhn, 38, was last heard from on Thursday by his wife as he set off alone on a hike through Folgefonna National Park in southwestern Norway.
Searchers are using dogs, drones and experienced climbers to look for Mr. Luhn, said Ingeborg Thorsland, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Red Cross.
Weather conditions were not favorable for the search because of a storm, preventing the police from using helicopters, said Oystein Torsnes, a police chief in Hardanger, a region nearby.
“The weather yesterday and today is tough, and the terrain we search in is quite challenging,” Mr. Torsnes said.
The rescuers were planning to search for Mr. Luhn until at least sunset on Tuesday, around 10 p.m. local time, Ms. Thorsland said.
Mr. Luhn was last heard from on Thursday afternoon at 3:24 p.m. local time. His wife, Veronika Silchenko, said in a phone interview on Tuesday that he had texted her his itinerary.
Mr. Luhn, whom Ms. Silchenko described as an experienced hiker, was on a solo backpacking trip heading into Folgefonna National Park from Odda, a nearby town. The park is a popular, if challenging, place for hikers to admire its stunning nature, which includes a large glacier at its center.
The couple had traveled to Norway to visit family, Ms. Silchenko said. On Thursday, she left to go home to London and Mr. Luhn went on his hike.
Ms. Silchenko said that it was not unusual for Mr. Luhn to go on hikes by himself, and that she had not expected to hear from him for a few days because of spotty phone service in the park. By Sunday, she said, she started worrying. When Mr. Luhn did not make his return flight home on Monday, Ms. Silchenko alerted the authorities in Norway.
The search for Mr. Luhn started late on Monday night, after dark, said Ms. Thorsland, the Red Cross spokeswoman. It kept going past midnight, she said, and restarted at around 5:30 a.m. with the sunrise.
“I just really want him back,” Ms. Silchenko said. “I can’t sleep or eat properly. It’s very hard not to know anything.”
Mr. Luhn is no stranger to challenging terrain from his reporting. Among other places, he has reported from oil fields in Texas, drought-stricken regions of Somalia and a research ship on the North Sea, according to an interview he gave to his alma mater, the journalism school at the University of Wisconsin. He also travels often to the Arctic for his work, Ms. Silchenko said.
Mr. Luhn’s articles have appeared in multiple newspapers and other outlets, including The Guardian, The Atlantic, Scientific American and Vice News.
Claire Moses is a Times reporter in London, focused on coverage of breaking and trending news.
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