Lost hiker found dead in Cloud Peak Wilderness

SHERIDAN—Grant Gardner has been found deceased in the Cloud Peak Wilderness.

On Aug. 26 during the late afternoon/early evening hours, a professional climbing team from North Carolina summited Cloud Peak and descended on the northern route of the peak, prior to a summit attempt on Woolsey Peak the next day.

While making camp for the evening, the climbers noticed a slight reflection a few hundred feet above them underneath a ledge. They were confident it was a backpack.

The climbing team notified the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office via satellite of its finding.

First Flight of Wyoming transported search and rescue teams to the North Carolina climbers’ high altitude camp.

Gardner’s remains were located near the backpack. Gardner was weari

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