Gary Tweddle search scaled back

NSW Police confirmed that the search for a man missing in the Blue Mountains has been scaled back. Source: AAP

THE search for Gary Tweddle, lost in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney for 10 days, has been scaled back, with his father acknowledging it's now likely to be a recovery operation.

NSW Police confirmed on Friday that rescue workers were still looking for the 23-year-old but that the search had been scaled back.

This comes after officers door-knocked every house within a 1400 square kilometre area around Leura, where he was last seen.

Blue Mountains Mayor Daniel Myles said the community was hoping the young man was safe and sound.

"I cannot understand how he could have gone missing if he was near a main road," Mr Myles told AAP.

"If he is out there in the bush, he may be having great difficulty with these very cold temperatures."

Along Watkins Road in Leura, near the five-star Fairmont Resort where Mr Tweddle was staying, the mood is sombre. Electricity posts are plastered with posters featuring his image and asking if anyone has seen him.

Mr Tweddle went missing from a work conference at the resort in the early hours of last Tuesday.

He had called colleagues about midnight to tell them he was lost in bushland but could see a light up a hill.

"Over the past 10 days more than 1000 people have searched, co-ordinated and supported the efforts to locate and return Gary safely," Mr Tweddle's father David said in his Facebook post on Thursday night.

"Most of these people are volunteers with lives and jobs, yet they did 10 days on the bounce.

"A massive thankyou to them, their families and their employers. What can I say? Amazing."

But David Tweddle also acknowledged the efforts to find his son have moved from a search and rescue to a recovery operation.

The situation is very different to the 2009 rescue of British backpacker Jamie Neale, who survived 12 days in the same mountains after becoming lost during a bushwalk, he said.

"Gary was not prepared with resources a bushwalker may have, plus the terrain is different," Mr Tweddle said in his post.

Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford said police will continue to search for Mr Tweddle as a missing person.

"The search and investigation concerning Mr Tweddle's disappearance last week will continue in the coming days," he said.

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