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Climbers Find Remains Of Grant Gardner Near Cloud Peak
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Climbers Find Remains Of Grant Gardner Near Cloud Peak
Published 8 hours ago on August 28, 2025 By News Release
Photo Courtesy: Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
On Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 during the late afternoon/ early evening hours, a professional climbing team from North Carolina summited Cloud Peak and descended on the northern route of the peak, prior to a summit attempt on Woolsey Peak the next day.
The climbers made a high altitude camp for the evening. … While making camp the climbers noticed a slight reflection a few hundred feet above them underneath a ledge. … The climbers were confident it was a backpack.
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The Big Horn County, Wyoming Sheriff says he believes Gardner succumbed to a tragic accident as many have surmised.
Special thanks to a spectacular professional group of technical climbers who were in exactly the right spot, at the right moment, with the right light, to notice a small piece of fabric on a pack that was otherwise undetectable, for selflessly aborting their plans and working with SAR Teams to find Gardner, providing closure to his family.
Information Courtesy: Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff’s Office
Climbers Find Remains Of Grant Gardner Near Cloud Peak
Published 8 hours ago on August 28, 2025 By News Release
Photo Courtesy: Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
On Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 during the late afternoon/ early evening hours, a professional climbing team from North Carolina summited Cloud Peak and descended on the northern route of the peak, prior to a summit attempt on Woolsey Peak the next day.
The climbers made a high altitude camp for the evening. … While making camp the climbers noticed a slight reflection a few hundred feet above them underneath a ledge. … The climbers were confident it was a backpack.
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The Big Horn County, Wyoming Sheriff says he believes Gardner succumbed to a tragic accident as many have surmised.
Special thanks to a spectacular professional group of technical climbers who were in exactly the right spot, at the right moment, with the right light, to notice a small piece of fabric on a pack that was otherwise undetectable, for selflessly aborting their plans and working with SAR Teams to find Gardner, providing closure to his family.
Information Courtesy: Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff’s Office
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Hiker Is Found Dead in Wyoming After Being Missing for a Month
Grant Gardner’s body was found by a climbing team on Wednesday in Bighorn National Forest, a week after the authorities called off a search.
Grant Gardner was last heard from after he contacted his wife on July 29 to say that he had climbed Cloud Peak at Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.Credit...Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
By Ashley Ahn
Aug. 30, 2025
A man who had embarked on a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead after being missing for about a month, officials said.
A professional climbing team descending from a mountain peak in Bighorn National Forest on Tuesday noticed a slight reflection that they identified as a backpack underneath a ledge.
The Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office deployed a team the next day and found the body of the hiker, Grant Gardner, 38, who had been missing for a month, near the backpack.
Mr. Gardner of Minnesota had planned a hike in Bighorn National Forest, in the northern part of the state, to climb Cloud Peak, its highest peak with an elevation of greater than 13,000 feet.
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Crews searching for Grant Gardner in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
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Ashley Ahn covers breaking news for The Times from New York.
Grant Gardner’s body was found by a climbing team on Wednesday in Bighorn National Forest, a week after the authorities called off a search.
Grant Gardner was last heard from after he contacted his wife on July 29 to say that he had climbed Cloud Peak at Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming.Credit...Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
By Ashley Ahn
Aug. 30, 2025
A man who had embarked on a three-day hike in Wyoming was found dead after being missing for about a month, officials said.
A professional climbing team descending from a mountain peak in Bighorn National Forest on Tuesday noticed a slight reflection that they identified as a backpack underneath a ledge.
The Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office deployed a team the next day and found the body of the hiker, Grant Gardner, 38, who had been missing for a month, near the backpack.
Mr. Gardner of Minnesota had planned a hike in Bighorn National Forest, in the northern part of the state, to climb Cloud Peak, its highest peak with an elevation of greater than 13,000 feet.
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Crews searching for Grant Gardner in Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming Big Horn County Wyoming Sheriff's Office
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Ashley Ahn covers breaking news for The Times from New York.