A TEENAGE bushwalker missing from a school group in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park in the Tasmanian central highlands has been found and is on his way home.
Police say the Victorian student became separated from his walking party yesterday while walking from Golden Gate to Trappers Hut.
Authorities were alerted at 11.20 pm last night and a search party of about a dozen search and rescue volunteers and police walked into the search area this morning.
The 14-year-old student, part of a group from the Seventh Day Adventist Gilson College in Melbourne, was found around 11am suffering from hypothermia but otherwise uninjured.
Police say the teenager was well equipped with a sleeping bag, tent and food but got wet overnight when temperatures dropped and snow began falling.
Police say he fell in a river somethime this morning.
Ten volunteers from the SES, eight police, the Westpac rescue helicopter and eight teachers and students from the school had been searching for the boy.
Three students from the Gilson College group became separated from a school group walk in the park last week and were located by the Westpac helicopter and later rejoined their party.
The school group left Tasmania for Victoria this afternoon.
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