Hiker discovered lifeless in Grand Canyon after tenting in a single day

Harris Marley

International Courant

A hiker was discovered lifeless after tenting in a single day on the backside of the Grand Canyon, park officers say. 

The 41-year-old male, who has not been publicly recognized, was found “unresponsive” alongside the Vivid Angel Path simply east of the Pipe Creek River Resthouse on Sunday morning, based on the Nationwide Park Service (NPS). 

“All makes an attempt by bystanders and Nationwide Park Service personnel to resuscitate the person have been unsuccessful,” officers mentioned. “The hiker was a 41-year-old male who was mountain climbing out of the canyon from an in a single day keep on the Vivid Angel Campground close to Phantom Ranch.” 

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“An investigation into the incident is being performed by the NPS in coordination with the Coconino County Medical Examiner,” NPS added.

MYSTERY AS PEOPLE BECOME VIOLENTLY ILL WHILE HIKING THROUGH REMOTE PART OF GRAND CANYON  

The world of the Grand Canyon the place park officers say the hiker was discovered lifeless. (NPS/J. Baird)

The dying comes after dozens of hikers visiting Havasupai Falls close to Grand Canyon Nationwide Park just lately reported falling violently unwell with a mysterious illness.

In some circumstances, guests have been too sick to hike again out of the canyon and wanted to be carried out through helicopter.  

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Maylin Griffiths, who visited the falls in Arizona to have fun her fortieth birthday, informed AZ Household that her journey shortly become a nightmare after she instantly fell very unwell.  

“We [left] early morning on the sixth after which arrange camp. We had a beautiful campsite,” Griffiths mentioned. “I used to be throwing up, simply lots of GI points, after which it simply progressively received worse and worse.” 

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Guests hike by a stone archway on the Vivid Angel Path inside Grand Canyon Nationwide Park in June 2015. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)

One other pal in her group additionally received severely unwell, and the group ended up mountain climbing again a number of miles to a village within the canyon to get medical consideration.  

“He found our temperatures have been actually excessive. Mine was 104 and my pal was 105. We have been violently unwell. They have been in a position to admit us to the clinic there as a result of they thought-about it life threatening,” Griffiths informed the outlet. 

This photograph supplied by Randy Shannon reveals Mooney Falls on the Havasupai reservation outdoors the village of Supai, Arizona, on Might 19. Dozens of vacationers say they fell unwell on a latest go to to a preferred and picturesque stretch of waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon Nationwide Park. (Randy Shannon through AP)

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Havasupai Falls is situated on the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Coconino County. In a Fb submit, the Havasupai Tribe Tourism Workplace wrote that the general public water sources on the reservation are examined repeatedly, and have been final decided to be secure for human consumption by the Havasupai Water Division on June 6. 

Fox Information’ Christina Coulter contributed to this report. 

Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox Information Digital.

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