Search continues for 1 person near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, hours after searchers said he was found

The search and rescue co-ordinator in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, says one person has been found alive and another is still missing on the land, 10 days after the pair went missing between Cambridge Bay and Kugluktuk.

Angulalik Pedersen, a ground search and rescue co-ordinator leading the search from Cambridge Bay, told CBC News on Wednesday that both of the men had been found alive. However, hours later he said that, in fact, only one of the pair had so far been found.

Pederson said on Wednesday evening that searchers were still tracking the footprints of the other man, who was older and had been walking ahead of the man who was found.

In a message to CBC News, Pederson said their "most knowledgeable local tracker" was following the older man's footsteps, and a search plane was also looking.

The man who was found earlier was found around Parry Bay, on the Kent Peninsula, outside of Cambridge Bay.

The two went missing while travelling to a cabin between the two communities to meet up with family.

Pedersen said the two individuals had been travelling on one snowmobile with a sled in tow. He said the pair are very experienced on the land and one of the individuals, who is now in his 50s, has been travelling the route since he was a child.

Local search and rescue volunteers from Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay have been searching for the pair for days.