A 57-year-old hiker’s body was found in the Grand Canyon, park officials said.
Ralph Stoll, of Scottsdale, Arizona was found dead 200 feet below the Boucher Trail on Tuesday, the National Park Service said in a news release.
Park officials received a report of the missing hiker around 8 a.m. and began an aerial search by 10 a.m., officials said.
Stoll’s body was located between Yuma Point and Dripping Springs, near the Boucher Trail.
His body was flown to the South Rim. The park and the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office are examining his death.
Other hikers have died in the Grand Canyon this year.
Eighteen people had died in the Grand Canyon in 2021, the park service told McClatchy News at the end of August.
A 60-year-old man from Oswego, Illinois, died in June. He was a half-mile from the trail head. Then a backpacker from Hudson, Ohio, died of extreme heat that same month when temperatures reached 115.
More than 4 million people have visited the national park in 2021 as of November.
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