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IQALUIT
On Christmas Eve, nearly 40 volunteers helped search for an Iqaluit man, Eepeebee Campbell, 32, after he failed to return from a caribou hunt.

Campbell was spotted by air on Dec. 26, three days after being reported overdue.

He is alive and well and has returned home - the perfect, if belated, present for worried family members.

Campbell was hunting alone when his snowmobile broke down near Foul Inlet, roughly 25 km from Iqaluit. Campbell found shelter and constructed a makeshift camp using his qamutiik.

He kept warm during the frigid -20 C nights with a stove he had packed.

After Campbell was seen from a Twin Otter aircraft on Wednesday around noon, rescuers on snowmobiles raced out to pick him up.

Acting chair for the Iqaluit Search and Rescue Committee Jimmy Akavak thanked all the volunteers for helping locate Campbell and returning him safely to his family during the holidays.

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