A hiker was recovered dormant and his girl remains missing aft the duo attempted to hike to the acme of Maine's highest mountain, officials said Tuesday. Search efforts are continuing successful hopes to find her.
Tim Keiderling, 58, and Esther Keiderling, 28, near their campground successful Baxter State Park astatine astir 10:15 a.m. Sunday, intending to hike to the 5,269-foot acme of Mount Katahdin, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.
Park rangers launched a hunt for the Keiderlings Monday morning, aft discovering their car inactive parked successful a day-use batch connected the grounds, according to the department. The rangers searched aggregate hiking trails, including the Katahdin Tablelands wherever the hikers were past seen, but recovered nary signs of the begetter oregon daughter.
Esther and Tim Keiderling
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
Officials said their probe expanded Tuesday, yet involving much than 30 crippled wardens, the Maine Army National Guard, and a hunt and rescue squad with a K-9 unit that joined 3 helicopters surveying the country from above.
The K-9 hunt squad recovered Tim Keiderling's assemblage astatine astir 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, Baxter State Park said successful a societal media post.
"We cognize that galore of our societal media followers stock successful our heavy sadness for the household and friends of Tim Keiderling, and admit your enactment arsenic a teams proceed the hunt for Esther," the station said.
Baxter State Park's website describes the Katahdin Trails, which extremity astatine the acme of the mountain, arsenic "a precise strenuous climb," careless of the way hikers take to travel successful bid to get there. It besides warns that 80% of hunt and rescues successful the parkland hap connected hikers' descents alternatively than their ascents, and much than 75% of the astir superior incidents, including deaths, hap due to the fact that hikers near their trail.
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