Search continues for man missing for 7 days in Yellowstone Park

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – The hunt continues for a 22-year-old man successful Yellowstone National Park who hasn’t been seen since past Tuesday.

A news merchandise from parkland officials Tuesday day says aerial and crushed crews are searching for Austin King adjacent Eagle Peak successful nan park’s distant southeast corner.

That was King’s past known location. He made a telephone to friends and family astir 7 p.m. connected Sept. 17 from nan acme of Eagle Peak. Authorities opportunity he’d taken a seven-day backcountry travel successful nan area.

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King is simply a concession worker moving successful Yellowstone. He was reported missing connected Friday day aft failing to get for his vessel prime up adjacent Yellowstone Lake’s southeast arm.

“Since Saturday, 85 personnel, 2 helicopters, a hunt canine team, and an uncrewed craft person focused efforts connected nan high-elevation, expansive and hazardous area,” a news merchandise says.

Searchers are reporting six-foot drifts of snowfall and crystal connected Eagle Peak, arsenic of 4:51 p.m. Tuesday. Teams will proceed looking for nan adjacent respective days arsenic conditions improve. Grand Teton National Park officials are assisting, on pinch Park County, Wyoming, and Teton County, Wyoming hunt and rescue.

Austin King, 22, is simply a concession worker successful Yellowstone National Park who’s been missing since Sept. 17. | Courtesy Yellowstone National Park

King is 6 foot, 160 pounds pinch brownish hair, hazel eyes and glasses. He was wearing a achromatic sweatshirt and grey pants astatine nan clip of his disappearance.

If you spot him aliases cognize wherever he mightiness be, telephone nan Yellowstone Interagency Communications Center astatine (307) 344-2643.