GREAT FALLS — On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, a hiker on the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park tripped and sustained fatal injuries from a fall.

The woman was identified in a news release as 73-year-old Diane Bunker of Muscatine, Iowa.

At about 11 a.m., park staff were alerted of a woman who had fallen off the Highline Trail.

While hiking with a large group, Bunker tripped and fell off the edge of the trail between Big Bend and Triple Arches, out of sight from her hiking party. TRENDING Animal cruelty case investigated in Sun Prairie Hiker injured by bear in Glacier National Park Four people dead in Lake County crash New restaurants and businesses in Great Falls

Going-to-the-Sun Road was closed from Logan Pass to Big Bend for about an hour to conduct the recovery.

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