Concerns raised about search and rescue in Canada as Norwegian hiker mourned

In late July, Steffen Skjottelvik set out on what he knew would be a perilous journey through the Canadian North.

Carrying a rifle and his backpack, and with his two huskies by his side, the Norwegian hiker planned to traverse 300 kilometres along the coast of Hudson Bay, from Fort Severn, Ont., to York Factory, a remote national historic site in Manitoba, about 250 km southeast of Churchill.