A 73-year-old bushwalker has been found after spending two nights lost in Victoria's north.
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The man's neighbours raised the alarm on Monday morning after he failed to return from a bushwalk on Sunday.
A 100-strong team resumed the search on Tuesday, but it was an eagle-eyed Police Air Wing pilot who spotted the man sitting on a rock shortly before 9am.
The man was winched to safety and taken to Corryong Hospital for a check-up, police said.
Concerns were mounting for the man with the temperature set to soar into the high 30s on Tuesday.
The bushwalker had left a note on his neighbours' door about 7am on Sunday telling them he was going for a walk in the Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park, about 120 kilometres east of Wodonga.
The national park is close to the man's home in Guys Forest, a small community between Wodonga and Corryong.
His car was found in the car park at the intersection of Ridge Track and Cudgewa Bluff Road, where he had signed the destination book.
Local police, park rangers and search and rescue crews searched for the man on the Mount Burrowa Walking Track in Guys Forest on Monday, but the search was called off as darkness fell.
More than 100 people, including volunteer bushwalkers, park rangers and State Emergency Service crews, resumed the search about 7.30am on Tuesday.
