Strained, cold and exhausted after five days in Loðmundarfjörður

Rescuers this morning rescued a foreign tourist who had been missing in Loðmundarfjörður for several days. He had last been seen on Saturday in Seyðisfjörður.

At 10:50 this morning, the Ísólfur rescue team in Seyðisfjörður was called out for a tourist who had not been heard from since Saturday evening. More units were soon called out.

A tourist who had not been heard from since Saturday evening was found safe in Loðmundarfjörður after a search by rescue teams this morning. He had been stranded outside in freezing temperatures without food or equipment and was surviving on herbs and water. The rescue ship Hafbjörg and a rescue boat from Ísólfur came upon him as he was waving on a cliff by the coast. The man was taken to Neskaupstaður and to a hospital for treatment, but he had…