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The search for a Polish tramper missing since Saturday in Rimutaka Forest Park is continuing today as fears for his safety grow.
Search teams stayed in the field overnight and up to 10 teams will search today.
Senior constable Daniel O'Connell said eight staff were coming over from the Wairarapa today to help with the search.
Twenty-eight-year-old computer software engineer, Jacek Grzybowski was only equipped for a day tramp and he is not familiar with the area he went into.
CCTV footage showed Mr Grzybowski on a platform at Wellington Railway Station at 6.57am on Saturday. He is believed to have caught the 7.03am train to Waterloo and then a bus to Wainuiomata.
Mr Wright said there had been a confirmed sighting of a man, matching Mr Grzybowski's description, asking for directions in Sunny Grove, Wainuiomata, about 9am Saturday.
"He spoke to a couple of householders asking where he could find the entrance to the track. One of the access points for the Whakanui Track is off Sunny Grove so we believe he headed out onto that track."
Police have spoken to the Polish Ambassador in Wellington to liaise with his family.
Mr Grzybowski was described as 180cm tall, with brown/blond hair and of medium build.
He arrived in Wellington in February on a working holiday and has spent most weekends exploring bush and coastal tracks in the Wellington region. It is cold but fine in the region today.
- NZPA
