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Officials said on Thursday that Minnesota Hycar was found to be deceased in the Born Mountains of Vyoming, when he sent a final text message to his wife and was not heard again, the officials said on Thursday.
The Big Horn County Sheriff Office said in a statement that the body of a 38 -year -old Grant Gardner was found under a verge near the 13,000 -foot cloud peak peak.
Sheriff’s office said, “While this is not the result we expected, we hope that it will be very important for the family to make a very necessary peace and closure.”
Gardner went missing in Cloud Peak Wilderness on 29 July, where he planned to increase a three -day increase through the Mrs. Moon Lake area before covering Cloud Peak.
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The 38 -year -old Grant Gardner was last heard from July 29, when he covered a 13,000 -foot cloud peak in the Born Mountains of Vyoming. His body was discovered on 26 August. (Big Horn County Sheriff Office)
The phone record showed that Gardner’s last known contact was a message to his wife that day, “stating that he made it at the summit,” Sheriff’s office said. Officials said the text indicated that “climbing was more tax than their expectation and he was tired.”
In the following weeks, Sheriff’s offices, search and rescue teams and volunteers combined into the forest for gardener’s signals without success.
Search and rescue teams dismissed cloud peak wilderness for gardener signals without success in weeks after their disappearance on 29 July 2025. (Big Horn County Sheriff Office)
Sheriff’s office said on Tuesday, the professional climbing team summarized Cloud Peak and started landing on the northern route of the summit when he built a high -height camp and saw that “a minor reflection was a few hundred feet above them.”
The climbers believed that it was a backpack and informed the Sheriff Office through the satellite. They agreed to postpone their plans and wait for the rescue team to arrive.
When the rescue teams reached the daylight, they found Gardner’s remains near the backpack, Sheriff’s office said, saying that their clothes were corresponding to the area in the “very close” area where he was climbing and it was difficult to notice.
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Gardner’s body was recovered from the mountain and brought home to his family.
Gardner’s wife first told a local news outlet that her husband loved to go on a single hike. (Big Horn County Sheriff Office)
The 38 -year -old is the father of two children, who are 13 and 11, Cowboy state daily Informed His wife, Lauren, had told the first outlet that her husband had been traveling hiking for more than a decade and preferred to go singles.
“All this is certainly real,” he told the outlet that the search was still on. “And I’m in shock, I think, and are trying to be strong for children. It has never happened in all the years that he has gone out. He knows what he is doing and skill. I am expecting now.”
Sheriff’s office mentioned that the case was given to the office of Big Horn County Curoner to determine the time, methods and causes of death, as regular.
“Nothing should be read in this infection,” said the Sheriff Office. “We believe that Gardner died in a tragic accident because we all have said.”
Sheriff’s office also thanked the professional climbing team for her help, saying that they were at the right place at the right time.
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“Special thanks to a magnificent professional group of technical climbers, which at the right time, right time, with the right light, to notice a small piece of fabric on a pack, which was otherwise undesirable, to cancel their plans and find gardener to discover their plans and work with SAR teams, to close his family,”.
Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
