Clayton Klapper is a Real-Time Editor at ABC15 Arizona.
A 60-year-old North Carolina man has died while on a solo hiking trip at the Grand Canyon.National Park Service says their communication center received a call on August 27 from a family member of the man after he failed to check in with them while attempting to hike the Thunder River Trail-Deer Creek loop.On the morning of October 28 NPS rescue personnel located the man dead along a route connecting Lower Tapeats Camp and Deer Creek Camp.The cause of the man's death is unknown at this time.
This is the fifth Grand Canyon death reported in August and the sixth in approximately the last 30 days.Over the weekend, search-and-rescue crews located the body of a Gilbert woman who went missing during a flash flood that swept through the area while she was on a hiking trip.A BASE jumper died at the Grand Canyon after an incident at Yavapai Point on August 1.
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