A search is underway for award-winning local weather journalist Alec Luhn, who went lacking on a Norwegian glacier throughout a solo backpacking journey on Thursday.
Luhn’s spouse advised CBS Information he left for a hike on July 31 in Odda, in southwestern Norway, and shared his location.
She stated her household wasn’t fearful, as a result of he is an skilled outdoorsman. They anticipated he may not have cell service, however when he did not present up for his flight again dwelling to the U.Ok. on Monday evening, his spouse and household referred to as the police.
His spouse, Veronika Silchenko, stated he despatched an image from his final identified location in Odda, “and that was the final time I heard from him.”
Veronika Silchenko 
Rescue operations have been ongoing, however have been hampered by some inclement climate.
His household desires to unfold the phrase within the hopes that anybody mountaineering the identical route will share any info with native authorities.
“Alec is mainly obsessive about the Arctic. He loves glaciers and snow, and he loves explorers, and he is a local weather journalist, so for him it’s at all times that story that now due to the local weather change they’re all shrinking, and he is making an attempt his finest to go to the coldest international locations,” Silchenko stated.
Luhn is predicated in London, however was born in Wisconsin. He has reported for shops together with The Atlantic, Nationwide Geographic, The New York Occasions, Scientific American, TIME, CBS Information Radio, and VICE Information TV.
