On Tuesday night, Grand Teton National Park rangers found the body of a Langley woman on the lower slope of Symmetry Spire, bringing to an end a search that started Sunday.
According to the U.S. Parks Service, Lori Sievers, 22, was a summertime employee at the park. Personnel began searching for Sievers when friends reported her missing Monday. A search involving helicopters and a number of volunteers began. Sievers’ body was spotted from the air and was later recovered by the rangers.
The parks service said initial findings indicated Sievers took a significant fall and died of massive trauma injuries on Sunday. The search took over 40 hours.
Sievers’ parents, James and Mary Jo, live in Langley. They flew to Grand Teton National Park — which is in Wyoming — to participate in the search.
Sievers was a 2002 graduate of Colorado State University. She was working as a biological science technician at the park this summer.
Sievers had extensive experience working in parks and wilderness. In he past, she worked at the Tonto National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
In a written statement, Grand Teton Park Superintendent Steve Martin, expressed sadness over Sievers’ death.
“Our hearts are breaking with Lori’s family. This tragedy has hit the park staff and search team members really hard.”
This is the second fatality at the park this year. This spring, another young woman died while hiking in the park.