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A 70-year-old hiker, Craig Berg, disappeared Sept. 5 on Isle Royale, a remote island in Lake Superior, and was found nearly a week later injured and hypothermic. A multi-agency search involving good-Samaritan backpackers, Michigan State Police, and K-9 units led to his rescue by a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, after which he was transported to a hospital.
A 70-year-old hiker who had been missing for a week on Isle Royale, Michigan, was found injured but alive after a multi-agency search. He was hoisted by a Coast Guard helicopter and taken to a Michigan airport for treatment after suffering hypothermia while hiking the remote island.
Craig Berg, a 70-year-old hiker who had been missing for about a week on Isle Royale National Park near the Michigan-Canada border, was found alive and alert by backpackers on Sept. 12. Berg had vanished after planning to take a ferry back to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sept. 5, prompting land- and air-searches that continued since Sept. 6. Isle Royale is remote, without roads, and measures 45 miles long by nine miles wide. Park officials said more information will be shared as investigators review the case.
A 70-year-old hiker missing on Isle Royale since Sept. 5 was found alive and alert Saturday by backpackers. He was in rough shape but able to speak and asked for food and water; his family and the National Park Service thanked the responders and those who helped in the search.
Isle Royale National Park is closing sections of the Three Mile Campground through July 31 and expanding hazing, noise deterrents, and stricter food-storage rules at nearby campgrounds after a bold wolf began sniffing tents, dragging backpacks, and entering tents, signaling habituation to humans. Duncan Narrows campground was closed earlier this week due to rising human-wildlife interactions. There are about 37 wolves on the island this winter—the most since the 1970s—while the moose population has declined.