Oslo, Aug. 6 -- Search and rescue volunteers are battling bad weather and heavy rainfall in a search for an American journalist who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park.
Alec Luhn, a climate journalist from Wisconsin, is an experienced hiker who has completed a number of solo trips in challenging conditions.
He was reported missing by his wife Veronika Silchenko on Monday, after he failed to board his flight home, reports CNN.
Silchenko told CNN she last spoke to Luhn on Thursday, as he was setting off on his hike in the Folgefonna National Park in southwest Norway.
Silchenko said that while she is always "a bit worried" when Luhn is out hiking, she was also aware that phone signals could be patchy in the wilderness a...