Two Kwanlin Dun men who separated from their hunting party late last week have been found.

Unfortunately, one hunter was dead when rescuers located him Monday.

The two men were reported missing last Saturday, two or three days after they left their four-man hunting party.

"It's still a little bit up in the air on how they got separated,” Sgt. Don Rogers of the Whitehorse RCMP said today.

"Four went up the river, one got separated, and whether the other fellow went off to look for him, we still don't know.”

Rogers said the RCMP have not yet received full statements from the three surviving hunters.

The men were travelling by boat up the Teslin River when the party broke up last Wednesday or Thursday, according to police. The ensuing search focused on the Hootalinqua area.

The search team included two RCMP helicopters equipped with heat-seeking cameras, several conservation officers on quads, two RCMP boats, several boats and searchers from Little Salmon-Carmacks and the Kwanlin Dun, and a number of volunteers from Whitehorse search and rescue.

The first man was found alive and well at his hunting camp near Hootalinqua on Sunday. He was prepared for several nights alone in the bush, Rogers said.

The other man, 45-year-old Johnny George of Whitehorse, was found the next day near Livingstone Creek. His body was found on land, Rogers said.

No cause of death has yet been determined, but the sergeant said it is not considered suspicious.

Livingstone Creek is not directly connected to the Teslin River and is about 40 kilometres overland from where the first missing hunter was found.

The Yukon coroners service is now responsible for determining what killed George.

"It's going to be a sad day, because he was well-respected in the community,” acting Kwanlin Dun chief Ray Webb said this afternoon.