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A Minnesota hiker has now been missing for more than a week after disappearing in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, with his wife saying that she is "trying to stay strong for the kids."

Grant Gardner made contact with his wife on July 29 "letting her know he’d made it to the summit" of the 13,000-foot Cloud Peak, but has not been heard from since, according to the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office. The agency launched a search and rescue operation in what it described as "extreme and very challenging" conditions.

"He solo hikes, and he’s been hiking for over a decade," his wife Lauren Gardner told Cowboy State Daily . "He’s used to this stuff, and he’s very detail oriented."

"It’s all definitely surreal," she reportedly adde

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