SYDNEY — A woman who went missing in Australia’s Snowy Mountains region six days ago has been found by emergency services after a massive search and rescue operation.

Police said photographer Lovisa Sjoberg suffered from a snake bite while lost in the remote mountains in New South Wales and had to be treated for her injuries at the scene before being rushed to hospital.

Sjoberg, 48, is a regular visitor to the Kosciuszko National Park where she takes photographs as part of a project documenting wild horses living in the mountains.

Police said she was last spoken to on 8 October.

Fears grew for her safety after a hire car company reported that her car had not been returned and she could not be contacted. Her car was later found unlocked and abandoned.

New South Wales police launched an appeal on 21 October to the public to help find her and began a widescale search using sniffer dogs, firefighters, park rangers and a helicopter with infra-red capabilities.

Concerns increased after rescue teams failed to find her after several days and temperatures in the area surrounding Kosciuszko National Park dropped as low as zero degrees overnight.

Sjoberg was found on Sunday afternoon local time by a National Parks and Wildlife Service officer on the Nungar Creek Trail at Kiandra.

“A woman missing from the Snowy Mountains region since last week has been located, following a wide-scale search by emergency services,” New South Wales police said in a statement. — BBC