Park rangers are looking for a 22-year-old concession worker who was last heard from over a week ago in Yellowstone National Park.
After a seven-day wilderness excursion to summit Eagle Peak, Austin King was supposed to pick up his boat on Friday afternoon at Yellowstone Lake’s Southeast Arm. However, he did not show up, and the National Park Service announced on Sunday that King was reported missing.
The hunt got underway on Saturday morning. Rescuers discovered King’s camp and personal belongings near upper Howell Creek that evening.
In an effort to find King, more than 20 ground searchers combed the region around Eagle Peak in the isolated southeast corner of Yellowstone on Sunday with the assistance of two helicopters, drones, and a search dog team.
King is described as being 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes, and spectacles. The authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating King.
King was last heard from on Tuesday at approximately 7 p.m. local time.
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He had been reporting fog, rain, sleet, hail, and windy conditions when he called friends and family from the peak of Eagle Peak.
King was left off on September 14 at Yellowstone’s Terrace Point, according to a missing person flier released by park officials. He had a conversation at Howell Creek with a backcountry warden two days later.
Anybody who has had contact with King since September 14 or knows where he is, are asked to get in touch with Yellowstone Interagency Communications, according to park officials.
