Two search teams resumed the search on Monday for the remains of Julian Tologanak, 20, seen in a profile picture from his Facebook page. (Facebook)Ground search teams were set to resume their efforts in western Nunavut on Monday to find the remains of a Cambridge Bay man who jumped to his death from an airplane last week.

RCMP say searchers are en route to the Umingmaktok area in western Nunavut, where the Adlair Aviation charter flight from Yellowknife was believed to be flying over when Julian Tologanak, 20, forced open the aircraft's exit door and jumped out late Wednesday.

At the time of the incident, the King Air 200 aircraft was flying at an altitude of about 7,000 metres, about 180 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay.

Cambridge Bay Staff Sgt. Charles Gauthier told CBC News on Monday afternoon that two search teams will be on the ground shortly, one organized by a local search and rescue committee and the other by Tologanak's family.

The ground searches resume after police called off an air search over the weekend.

Gauthier said a team of spotters aboard a Twin Otter aircraft conducted an intense grid search on Saturday, but found no sign of Tologanak's body.

"There was no sign, no indicators of anything out of the ordinary," Gauthier said Sunday.

"The terrain there is very rugged, very rocky, and very bare. There's no snow on top and the valleys are full of snow, so it's very difficult."

Gauthier would not say how Tologanak managed to open the airplane door at that altitude.