KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 — The search for missing hiker Jaslinda Saludin entered its sixth day today, with 50 personnel, including mountain guides, involved in efforts to locate the 49-year-old on Gunung Batu Putih in Perak.

State Fire and Rescue Department operations division assistant director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad said six members of the department’s Special Tactical Operation and Rescue Team of Malaysia (STORM), two Wildlife and National Parks Department personnel, five Forestry Department officers and three mountain guides had joined the latest phase of the search.

“All of them were flown by an AW139 helicopter to the summit of Mount Batu Putih and to the latest aerial extraction point (winching point), Kem Kantoi,” he said, according to national daily Utusan Malaysia.

Sabarodzi said rescue teams would also retrieve memory cards from trail cameras along the route in a bid to uncover fresh leads.

“The Protection Team, together with the rescue personnel, will retrieve surveillance camera memory chips from locations along the route to determine whether the victim may have been captured on the footage,” he was quoted as saying.

Sixteen rescuers were deployed today, joining 24 personnel who remained at the search site overnight, bringing the total number involved in the operation to 50.

Jaslinda was among 14 hikers and two mountain guides who began the Trans Spencer Chapman trek at 2am on May 23 via the Pos Gedung–Mount Bah Gading–Mount Batu Putih–Kuala Woh route.

She and fellow hiker Mohd Hanafi Neikmad, 41, reportedly experienced health issues during the expedition and stopped along the trail. Jaslinda is believed to have later resumed the climb towards the summit.

She was last seen by a mountain guide at about 7.30am on May 24 and has not been heard from since.