By Canadian Press

YORK FACTORY — RCMP say they’ve found the body of a 29-year-old Norwegian hiker who disappeared in northern Manitoba while on a cross-continental journey of the Canadian wilderness.

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Mounties from the Gilliam RCMP detachment say police, Parks Canada officers and community searchers from Fort Severn, Ont., were on the west side of the Hayes River on Sunday morning when they received a report from a helicopter pilot who believed he’d spotted the missing hiker’s body.

They say the searchers went to the area and confirmed the body belonged to the overdue man.

Steffen Skjottelvik was first reported missing on Aug. 15 after he failed to arrive in York Factory, Man., which is 850 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.

He had set out on foot with his two dogs f

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