Hiker found dead after suspected fall at Utah's Zion National Park

A search and rescue team recovered a body Thursday below Angels Landing, a 1,488-foot tall rock tower in Utah's Zion National Park. The body is consistent with the age and gender of a hiker who was reported missing Wednesday, the National Park Service (NPS) said in a news release. The hiker is believed to be a 19-year-old woman from Maine, NPS spokeswoman, Eleanor Siebers, said Thursday. NPS investigators suspect the woman fell to her death. The woman's friend reported that she fell Wednesday night, according to CNN affiliate KUTV. Officials said it was too dark to conduct a search, but by Thursday morning her body was recovered. Not counting this latest incident that remains under investigation, there have been nine fatalities on Angels Landing since 2004, Siebers said. There was one fatality in March 2019 and one fatality in 2018, she said...MORE

According to the NPS, six people a week die in a national park