Rescuers help track down tourist after desperate Facebook plea from mum in RussiaSUPPLIED Valeria Mikhailov was hiking through the Herekino Forest when she sent four 'help' signals from her GPS tracker back to her mother in Moscow, Russia, sparking a social media manhunt. Russian tourist Valeria Mikhailov went into the dense Herekino Forest near Kaitaia on Sunday to walk part of the Te Araroa trail. Despite being thousands of kilometres away and not speaking English, mum Luiza Kim took to a community Facebook page for help. READ MORE:* Kiwi photographer walks the Te Araroa trail* Te Araroa walking trail popularity creates pressure pointsKim posted a frantic call for help on the Te Araroa trail page at 10.38am on Monday with her daughter's New Zealand cellphone number and GPS co-ordinates. The Te Araroa trail, or The Long Pathway, is a 3000km tramping trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff.

Source: Stuff September 26, 2017 04:30 UTC