Glacier National Park. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan)

A woman died while hiking Wednesday in a group on the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park.

She tripped and sustained fatal injuries from a fall, Glacier said in a news release. She has been identified as 73-year-old Diane Bunker of Muscatine, Iowa, the park said.

The news release Friday described the events as follows:

At approximately 11 a.m. park staff were alerted of a female who had fallen off the Highline Trail. While hiking with a large group, Bunker tripped and fell off the edge of the trail, out of sight from her hiking party. The fall occurred between Big Bend and Triple Arches.

The Going-to-the-Sun Road was closed from Logan Pass to Big Bend for about an hour to conduct the recovery. Two Bear Air was dispatched t

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