{"id":105599,"date":"2024-05-17T18:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-23-year-old-climber-found-dead-in-rocky-mountains\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:04:33","slug":"missing-23-year-old-climber-found-dead-in-rocky-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-23-year-old-climber-found-dead-in-rocky-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing 23-year-old climber found dead in Rocky Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-17\/Getty_051724_RockyMountailNationalPark.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(GRAND LAKE, Colo.) &#8212; The body of 23-year-old Lucas Macaj was recovered in Colorado&#8217;s Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday after he took a &#8220;significant fall,&#8221; according to an initial investigation, the park said.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue teams had been looking for Macaj on Mills Glacier since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>His body was flown by helicopter to a landing zone in Rocky Mountain National Park before being transferred to the Boulder County Coroner&#8217;s Office. Park rangers completed an on-scene investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The search for Macaj began when he was reported overdue following an attempt to summit Longs Peak on Sunday. He was last heard from at about 1 p.m. on Sunday when he texted a friend indicating that he was on the summit of Longs Peak.<\/p>\n<p>Macaj&#8217;s vehicle was found parked at the Longs Peak Trailhead on Monday. The search for Macaj included several agencies as well as air, ground and dog teams.<\/p>\n<p>There were significant storms moving through the high elevations of the park on Sunday afternoon, according to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Boulder County Coroner&#8217;s office will release the official cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK (GRAND LAKE, Colo.) &#8212; The body of 23-year-old Lucas Macaj was recovered in Colorado&#8217;s Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday after he took a &#8220;significant fall,&#8221; according to an initial investigation, the park said. Search and rescue teams had been looking for Macaj on Mills Glacier<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-23-year-old-climber-found-dead-in-rocky-mountains\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}