WY WY - Austin King, 22, Yellowstone National Park, Eagle Peak, 17 Sept 2024

[Happypetitvieux01]

I noticed that too. Does anyone else think that it looks like there's something in what I assume is a cave. The trail in the snow starts there.

Got email telling me they saw that too and sending a flight to look at that.

 

[RedHaus]

In these pictures the one is zoomed in as far as I can get it. I circled and put a arrow. Does anyone else think that looks like a head with brown hair? If anyone can get a clearer image of it.

Interesting, @carson3483. Please send that in if you haven't already. You and @Happypetitvieux01 are on a roll. I think we all appreciate that the NPS and SAR are taking our sleuthing effort seriously.

 

[carson3483]

Interesting, @carson3483. Please send that in if you haven't already. You and @Happypetitvieux01 are on a roll. I think we all appreciate that the NPS and SAR are taking our sleuthing effort seriously.

I already did they replied saying they are going to forward it to search managers

 

[Happypetitvieux01]

Pictures sent to Yellowstone National Park.
Picture of crevasse
Picture of trail in snow (footprints?) right below
Both from picture 5401933394 (middle of pic, maximum zoom)

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[truthfinder2019]

No good news in FB, it would appear it shifted to a recovery operation

I cannot open this very last media release, can someone paste here relevant bits?

Search for missing Yellowstone hiker Austin King moves to recovery

UPDATE: October 2 at 12:15 p.m.

www.kulr8.com

 

[Happypetitvieux01]

Also sent this one a little later, saying I'm now hallucinating and seeing him in every crevasse.
Pic of second crevasse, just a little above first crevasse.
From picture 5401933394 (middle of pic, maximum zoom)
(Really sorry for poor quality, max zooming in not the best)

 

[RedHaus]

No good news in FB, it would appear it shifted to a recovery operation

I cannot open this very last media release, can someone paste here relevant bits?

Search for missing Yellowstone hiker Austin King moves to recovery

UPDATE: October 2 at 12:15 p.m.

www.kulr8.com

Nearly identical to what @imstilla.grandma posted just ^^^. But in both articles I found this most interesting:

"Yellowstone staff have also investigated cellular activity recorded from King on the evening of September 17, the night he reached Eagle Peak’s summit."

 

[ChatteringBirds]

UPDATE: Active search and rescue in remote southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

"Multiple crews will continue searching for the next several days as conditions warrant."

This is really sad; thinking of his family.
IMO donate if you can, in case his family has to soon fund some searching themselves. Still hoping for a "miracle."

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Efforts to locate King have expanded with 96 personnel, two helicopters, a search dog team, ground teams using spotting scopes, and a drone involved in the search.

Eagle Peak, standing at 11,372 feet, is the highest point in Yellowstone National Park. Search teams focus on areas from the peak down to about 8,000 feet in various drainages and ridgetops. On Thursday, September 26, helicopters from Yellowstone National Park and Teton County, Wyoming, searched extensively in the area.

Yellowstone staff have also investigated cellular activity recorded from King on the evening of September 17, the night he reached Eagle Peak’s summit

Search for missing Yellowstone hiker Austin King moves to recovery

UPDATE: October 2 at 12:15 p.m.

www.kulr8.com

 

[arielilane]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839718947110724006

News Release Date: September 27, 2024
Contact: Morgan Warthin, (307) 344-2015

• As the search and rescue for Austin King enters its seventh day, search crews continue to focus efforts in the vicinity of Eagle Peak in Yellowstone National Park.
• King, an employee of Xanterra Parks and Resorts, a private business authorized to operate in Yellowstone, was reported overdue to the Yellowstone Interagency Communications Center when he failed to arrive for his boat pickup near Yellowstone Lake’s Southeast Arm on the afternoon of Sept. 20, after his planned 7-day backcountry trip to summit Eagle Peak.
• To date, 96 personnel, two helicopters, a search dog team, ground teams with spotting scopes, and a drone have looked for King in this high-elevation, expansive and hazardous area. Eagle Peak, at 11,372 feet (3,466 m), is the highest point in Yellowstone National Park. Teams will continue to search from the peak to about 8,000 feet in various drainages and ridgetops surrounding the peak.
• On Thursday, Sept. 26, two helicopters, one belonging to Yellowstone National Park and the other to Teton County, Wyoming, searched extensively throughout the area.
• In addition, Yellowstone staff have followed up on cellular activity by King that occurred the evening of Sept. 17 on Eagle Peak, the night King summited the peak. Staff are working with cellular forensics experts to attempt to learn more from this data.
• Yellowstone continues to partner with Grand Teton National Park, Park County, Wyoming, and Teton County, Wyoming, to look for King. Multiple crews will continue searching for the next several days as conditions warrant.
• The park will provide more information when it is available.

Search on Eagle Peak in Yellowstone National Park moves from rescue to recovery, scales back - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

 

[arielilane]

The search effort has now swelled to 96 people with assistance from helicopters, a dog team and a drone. The teams are combing an area from the peak to 8,000 feet, examining both drainages and ridgetops, according to the park service update.

Along with the physical search, park staff have “followed up on cellular activity by King” from the evening he summited the peak. The park service had previously said King called friends and family to inform them he had reached the top. On one call, he described fog, sleet, hail and windy conditions at the peak.

“Staff are working with cellular forensic experts to attempt to learn more from this data,” the park service wrote in its Friday update.

Searchers scour mountain, cellular data for missing Yellowstone hiker - WyoFile

The effort to find 22-year-old Austin King stretched into its seventh day. Nearly 100 people are now working to locate him.

wyofile.com

3 hours ago

 

[FoxxTraxx]

Family Says Search For Missing Yellowstone Hiker Shifts From “Rescue” To “Recovery”.​

Not good news. Latest news report is here: Search for Austin is now a recovery effort - Cowboy State Newspaper

 

[RedHaus]

I finally had time tonight to sit at my desktop and study the two North Face images on the SAR Flickr Album.

The image labeled Eagle Peak Search & Rescue: north face of Eagle Peak (2) is the source, I believe of the images of marks on a snowy slope and the cave directly above those marks, submitted by @Happypetitvieux01 and @carson3483 to the NPS/SAR.

On the image labeled Eagle Peak Search & Rescue: north face of Eagle Peak I found more of the same kind of marks above the cave. It almost appears something (a chunk of snow?) fell from above. I sure hope it was not AK.

Then I started wondering if those marks had anything realistically to do with AK: How could he have ended above that area and possibly fallen down or climbed down to the cave and continued a descent?

So I found a blog site by other hikers who summited Eagle Peak 10 years ago (I'll submit it to NPS/SAR). There are lots of pics, including foggy and snowy conditions as they descended (in daylight in August). There was also this great image, below, of their trail up and down from the summit, including the Key Hole they went through back then.

I can't match up the north face SAR images to this image, especially since I believe the SAR images are mostly of the top third of this image. So I guess I am sharing this in case anyone else finds this useful for further sleuthing.

 

[PommyMommy]

SEP 27, 2024

Yellowstone hiker still missing

Rangers and Search and Rescue crews still have not found Austin King, the hiker who last made contact with the outside world a week and a half ago on a

www.jhnewsandguide.com

How long Search and Rescue teams keep looking depends on a number of factors, including how prepared and healthy the missing person is, how much information rescuers can find about their potential whereabouts, and how efficient the search is, said Greg Jackson, a former National Park Service ranger who retired in 2013 as deputy chief of national law enforcement.

 

[truthfinder2019]

Yellowstone staff are working with forensics experts in analyzing King’s cellular activity.

Search for missing hiker in Yellowstone continues

22-year-old Austin King was last heard from on September 17.

www.wyomingnewsnow.tv

Was about time this being reported, I would hope this is the first thing they ve done

 

[RedHaus]

Yellowstone staff are working with forensics experts in analyzing King’s cellular activity.

Search for missing hiker in Yellowstone continues

22-year-old Austin King was last heard from on September 17.

www.wyomingnewsnow.tv

Was about time this being reported, I would hope this is the first thing they ve done

IRRC, @truthfinder2019, early reporting stated SAR / park service were having trouble analyzing AK's phone activity because he had 'turned it off' right after his last call from the summit. Further, I think the park service recently found a partner agency to help. So maybe it just took time to figure that out.

I recall another WS case in which the 'final cell phone ping' near water was a huge focal point. There was a lot of discussion about the kinds of cell phone 'hard stops' like turned off, destroyed, under water, etc. IRRC, the cellphone service network apparently can help determine subtle differences. I'll stop there because this is not my area of expertise and I'd hate to misrepresent.

Anyone here a cell phone data expert who can explain the challenges AK's rescue teams may face with these data?

All IMO

 

[RedHaus]

SEP 27, 2024

Yellowstone hiker still missing

Rangers and Search and Rescue crews still have not found Austin King, the hiker who last made contact with the outside world a week and a half ago on a

www.jhnewsandguide.com

 RSBM

Well, this bit is disconcerting: "The area is densely populated with grizzly bears..."

 

[Tower]

Well, this bit is disconcerting: "The area is densely populated with grizzly bears..."

I believe Austin would be well-aware of necessary precautions (bear bells and bear spray). His enemies, in my opinion, were weather, a very challenging and unmarked class 3 route and darkness.

 

[Happypetitvieux01]

I finally had time tonight to sit at my desktop and study the two North Face images on the SAR Flickr Album.

The image labeled Eagle Peak Search & Rescue: north face of Eagle Peak (2) is the source, I believe of the images of marks on a snowy slope and the cave directly above those marks, submitted by @Happypetitvieux01 and @carson3483 to the NPS/SAR.

On the image labeled Eagle Peak Search & Rescue: north face of Eagle Peak I found more of the same kind of marks above the cave. It almost appears something (a chunk of snow?) fell from above. I sure hope it was not AK.

Then I started wondering if those marks had anything realistically to do with AK: How could he have ended above that area and possibly fallen down or climbed down to the cave and continued a descent?

So I found a blog site by other hikers who summited Eagle Peak 10 years ago (I'll submit it to NPS/SAR). There are lots of pics, including foggy and snowy conditions as they descended (in daylight in August). There was also this great image, below, of their trail up and down from the summit, including the Key Hole they went through back then.

I can't match up the north face SAR images to this image, especially since I believe the SAR images are mostly of the top third of this image. So I guess I am sharing this in case anyone else finds this useful for further sleuthing.

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Great job!
In your opinion, which pictures (between 32 in album SAR flickr) should we zoom first?