Climber Who Obtained Separated from Group Discovered Useless Glacier Nationwide Park

Per week after Grant Marcuccio went lacking, the mountaineer was discovered lifeless on Sunday, Aug. 25, in Montana’s Glacier Nationwide Park, in accordance with officers.

Marcuccio, 32, was final seen by his climbing social gathering on Sunday, Aug. 18 round 1 p.m. native time, in accordance with an announcement from the Nationwide Park Service.

Officers stated that whereas climbing from Heavens Peak to McPartland Peak he “separated from his social gathering,” however “deliberate to rendezvous at a chosen location.” That evening, after he by no means confirmed up, the group alerted rangers.

Starting Monday, Aug. 19, a search operation started, with assist from the US Forest Service and the native help group Two Bear Air. The aviation crew first flew over the Heavens Peak space to seek for him on that day after which once more on Tuesday, Aug. 20. The following day, Glacier Nationwide Park issued a proper lacking particular person alert.

The search concerned assist from Glacier Nationwide Park officers, North Valley and Flathead County Search and Rescue, USFS, US Geological Survey, Flathead County Sheriff’s Division, Two Bear Air Rescue, NPS employees and suggestions from the general public.

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On Aug. 25, round 2 p.m., Two Bear Air positioned his physique from the air, and his physique was recovered one-third of a mile east of McPartland Peak “under the ridgeline between Heavens Peak and McPartland Peak.”

His physique was transported to the Apgar horse corrals, the place Two Bear Air met with the native coroner.

As of Monday, Aug. 26, Marcuccio’s reason behind demise remains to be beneath investigation. Nonetheless, NPS stated that his “traumatic accidents” in addition to the “location of the physique are indicative of a fall.”

“Glacier Nationwide Park employees wish to specific their honest condolences to the household and ask that the general public respect their privateness,” the park service stated in an announcement.

Previously two years, not less than eight folks have died in Glacier Nationwide Park, and half of these deaths occurred this summer time. 

Earlier than Marcuccio’s demise earlier this month, park rangers stated they recovered the physique of Siddhant Vitthal Patil, 26. Patil went lacking with Raju Jha, 28, on July 6. Jha drowned within the park’s Lake McDonald, NPS stated. 

The month earlier than, Gillian Tones, 26, died after being swept up right into a waterfall “and trapped beneath water for a number of minutes,” per an NPS press launch. Ambulance personnel arrived and carried out CPR on the girl, however she was pronounced deceased after about 40 minutes of help.