An Air France pilot and French national who was declared missing while hiking Mount Whitney in California has been found dead from a fall.
Tom Gerbier, 38, had set out to hike the mountain on Tuesday and had been declared missing after failing to show up for a return flight on Wednesday, the National Park Service
On Thursday morning, another French climber attempting the summit found an abandoned piece of equipment at a particularly precarious point called the “Notch,” where a perilous hiking route on the mountain meets its exposed north face, the nonprofit Inyo County Search and Rescue Team said in a After search teams found more abandoned equipment in the area, Gerbier was subsequently found dead on Thursday evening. His fatal fall was about 1,000 feet down, park officials said.
Gerbier’s death is the second this year in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which Mount Whitney is a part of. The mountain straddles Inyo and Tulare Counties in California.
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