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UPDATE: Missing Snowshoer Found Dead At Mount Rainier National Park

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By NPT Staff - December 29th, 2014

Editor's note: This updates with the man's body being recovered.

A Washington man who got lost in a snowstorm at Mount Rainier National Park apparently died not far from safety at Paradise.

Park spokeswoman Patti Wold said a body that matched the description of the missing 37-year-old Puyallup man was found Monday by ground searchers next to Edith Creek in the Paradise area. The man had disappeared Saturday evening during a winter storm that dropped 20 inches of snow in 48 hours. He intended to overnight at Camp Muir, but was forced to descend due to "formidable" winter storm conditions, she said in a release.

"A second party took him into their shelter at Panorama Point, but when the shelter was destroyed by the extreme conditions they attempted to complete their descent to Paradise together," Ms. Wold wrote in a release. "During the descent the individual separated from the party in the vicinity of Edith Creek."

The park worked with the Nordic Patrol to conduct a hasty search on Sunday. Monday's operations, which led to closure of the road to Paradise and the snowplay area there, included a ground and air search from Edith Creek to the upper Stevens Canyon Drainage. Members of Tacoma, Everett, Seattle, and Olympic Mountain Rescues are conducting the ground search. The U.S. Army Reserve 214th Air Division out of Joint Base Lewis McChord and park climbing rangers aboard conducted a search by air.

 

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