27-year-old skier dies from fall at Death Canyon in Grand Teton National Park
A 27-year-old skier fell to his death in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming this week.
Officials received a call on Sunday from a climber who saw someone fall in the Apocalypse Couloir in Death Canyon, according to a news release from Grand Teton National Park. Park rangers and search and rescue personnel responded and tried to resuscitate Radcliff Spencer of Jackson, Wyoming, who was skiing in the area.
The efforts “proved unsuccessful due to the nature of injuries sustained,” the park said in the news release. Four others with Spencer were flown out of the canyon in a helicopter.
A park spokesperson told the Jackson Hole News & Guide that the fall probably was not caused by an avalanche.
“While the snowpack remains generally stable, hazards still exist and may carry high consequence in technical terrain,” the park’s news release said.
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Death Canyon is in the southern part of Grand Teton National Park, and the Apocalypse Couloir is on Prospectors Mountain.
This is not the first fatality at national parks and forests in recent months. Last year, a California family of three was found dead of hyperthermia and probable dehydration on a hiking trail near the Merced River in the Sierra National Forest
Jennifer Coleman, a 34-year-old woman from Richmond, Virginia, was found dead in Montana’s Glacier National Park last year.
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