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A frantic search is underway for a missing hiker on Queensland’s highest mountain.
The man, aged in his 20s, is believed to have been walking through dense bush near Josephine Falls Road in Bartle Frere, a mountain 70 kilometers south of Cairns, on Tuesday.
He was last heard from at 6.30pm, prompting emergency services to begin a search on the 1,622-metre-high mountain well into the night on Tuesday.
The search resumed at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
The man, aged in his 20s, was last heard from at 6.30pm on Tuesday. It is understood he was hiking on Bartle Frere, Queensland’s highest mountain at 1,622m (pictured)
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Queensland Police for comment.
More to come.
