Makkovik resident, 61, had been reported missing on Tuesday evening.
Search and rescue efforts were successful Wednesday in finding a missing hunter in the Okak Bay area of northern Labrador.
The 61-year-old Makkovik man had been with a group of hunters around the abandoned Inuit community of Okak.
The Nain RCMP detachment was told Tuesday evening that the man had not returned to the group. The call prompted a quick response from the ground search and rescue team in Nain, which began searching for the hunter overnight.
The hunter’s snowmobile dropped over an overhang where he sustained some injuries.
Sgt. Ed Nugent, the detachment commander in Nain, said the man’s life is not at risk.
Nugent said the man will be taken to hospital for treatment.
Nugent described the response from all parties as quick, and said that he is grateful for their efforts.
“The Nain ground search and rescue team was fully mobilized. Two members of the local team actually were the spotters on the helicopter that located this gentlemen today,” he said.
The group was believed to have been hunting partridges.
Story courtesy of CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.