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Police find body of snowboarder missing on Victoria's Mount Bogong Police find body of snowboarder missing on Victoria's Mount Bogong
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Police have found the body of a snowboarder on Mount Bogong, believed to be one of the two men who were reported missing on the Victorian mountain at the weekend. The body found on Victoria's Mount Bogong is that of missing snowboarder Daniel Kerr, police have confirmed.
The man's body was found buried under snow about 10.30am on Monday, police said. Kerr, 32, and his friend Martin Buckland, 33, failed to return to Melbourne on Saturday from their snowboarding trip to the Eskdale Spur area of Mount Bogong.
His identity has not been confirmed. Police said they would continue searching for the second man. Searchers continue to look for Buckland.
Martin Buckland, 33, from Yarra Junction, and Daniel Kerr, 32, from Hawthorn, failed to return to Melbourne on Saturday from their snowboarding trip to the Eskdale Spur area. Kerr's body was found under snow on a slope of Eskdale Spur, on Monday morning, police say.
Their families reported them missing on Saturday night. It is believed the two men may had been caught in an avalanche.
Inspector Dave Ryan from Wangaratta police said the body was dug out of the snow about 400 metres down a slope on Eskdale Spur. Nine Search and Rescue members, police and a number of ski patrol volunteers have searched for the two men since Sunday. A police helicopter has also being sent to help with the search.
Ryan said the families of both men had been informed. There was little hope the second man survived, Ryan said. The missing men were described as highly experienced and well equipped for the trip.
"Essentially we are trying to recover the second body," he said. Inspector Dave Ryan from Wangaratta police said there had been an average of one high country snow rescue a week recently.
Police will use probes to search the avalanche field and clues from objects found around the first man's body to find the second man. "The tragedy now is that a couple of nice young blokes have lost their lives thinking they were doing everything right, so we really need to make sure everybody is aware of what the real risks are of playing in the high country," he said.
A statement released earlier on Monday by Buckland's wife and Kerr's parents said the pair had been great friends since they met at high school, both worked in sport and recreational professions and "live and breathe the outdoors having been on many adventures such as this in the past".
The men were last in contact with their families on Thursday, speaking via mobile phone and sending a photograph of their camp at Mitchell Hut.
A group of walkers came across their campsite on Sunday and found an empty tent containing sleeping bags and other equipment.