{"id":105944,"date":"2024-06-13T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-of-skier-missing-since-may-recovered-from-washington-park\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:05:43","slug":"body-of-skier-missing-since-may-recovered-from-washington-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-of-skier-missing-since-may-recovered-from-washington-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of skier missing since May recovered from Washington park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-12\/Getty_061224_Mount%20Rainier%20National%20Park-STOCK.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(PARADISE, Wash.) &#8212; Park rangers have recovered the body of a dead female skier from the base of Pebble Creek&#8217;s Moraine Falls above Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers had been searching for the missing skier after she was last heard from on May 18, before she set out on a ski tour above Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: 23-year-old hiker missing in Rocky Mountain National Park<br \/>The park&#8217;s contract helicopter found an unresponsive person who appeared to have fallen approximately 200 feet to the base of a waterfall, according to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>The area was surrounded by a large, unstable snow moat that was subject to rock and ice fall, posing a risk to recovery teams, according to the NPS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rangers were able to recover the body using traditional crevasse rescue methods during another period of favorable weather,&#8221; according to the NPS.<\/p>\n<p>The park&#8217;s contract helicopter transported the body to Kautz Creek Helibase for evaluation by the Pierce County Medical Examiner.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK (PARADISE, Wash.) &#8212; Park rangers have recovered the body of a dead female skier from the base of Pebble Creek&#8217;s Moraine Falls above Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park. Rangers had been searching for the missing skier after she was last heard from on May 18,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/body-of-skier-missing-since-may-recovered-from-washington-park\/\">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\/105944"}],"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=105944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}