Chances of survival ‘quite good’ for missing protestor Christopher Fowell

About 40 people and a police helicopter are continuing the search for logging protestor Christopher Fowell today. 

Acting Inspector Wayne Rothwell said the search team was optimistic the 54-year-old would be found. 

“This morning I believe it’s about 40 personnel searching, and that’ll scale up throughout the day,” he said.

“At this point the assessment of his survivability is quite good still, so we haven’t determined any time we’d look at scaling back,” he said. 

Mr Fowell’s daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter have travelled from New South Wales to join the search. 

Police and his family are concerned he was not dressed appropriately for the cold overnight weather conditions of the high country. 

“Witnesses indicate he didn’t…