Police are searching for a couple who have gone missing in Sarek National Park.
Anders Bergwall, who has 30 years of experience in mountain rescue, is not currently worried about the couple.
– I’m not terribly nervous, there are two of them, he says.
Police are looking for a woman and a man who hiked in Sarek National Park. The couple, who are in their 30s, were supposed to be at home on Sunday but never turned up.
– We fly with a police helicopter and share information via cooperation channels such as cottage hosts and Sami villages up in that area, says Fredrik Nilsson, commander on duty, about the search effort that is currently underway.
The police have not yet been able to locate the area they may have been in. But they have found a car that should belong to the couple.
– We haven’t even been able to establish that they are in the park. The place where the car is parked can go in different directions. It will be a very broad and large search effort, for example we cannot deploy ordinary mountain rescuers.
“I’m not terribly nervous”
Anders Bergwall, who has 30 years of experience as a mountain rescuer, is not currently worried about the couple.
– I’m not terribly nervous, there are two of them and you always camp because there are no cabins. They probably have good stuff with them, he says.
– I find it hard to imagine that something serious has happened. There are also emergency telephones in some places.
In addition, the couple has the weather with them, says Bergwall.
– Tomorrow it will rain, there are not very strong winds in the valleys and ten to eleven plus degrees, it is barely minus on the peaks.
“My guess – had to take a detour”
Besides the weather, there are other challenges in Sarek National Park.
– There are not equally prepared bridges and spans. There are a few suspension bridges, but you can swim across all small streams. It can be noisy. Then it’s big and long and you get hungry after a while. Up in the mountains there are glaciers.
– My guess is that they came to a watercourse and didn’t get across and had to take detours.