Body of missing hiker found in Glacier National Park

RICHMOND, Va. — The assemblage of a Richmond pistillate who went missing portion hiking successful Glacier National Park successful Montana past week was located connected Sunday, according to the National Park Service (NPS).

"It is with dense bosom that we person to stock this news. Jennifer Coleman, girl of 1 of our ain AWARE family, Hal and Sharon Coleman, has been located deceased," work a connection posted to the Roanoke-based group's Facebook page Sunday evening. "Please respect the household arsenic they process their grief & loss."

Officials with Glacier National Park aboriginal said that Coleman's assemblage was recovered successful a steep and rocky country adjacent the Continental Divide.

"Rescuers volition extract Coleman’s assemblage erstwhile upwind conditions permit. Air operations were halted today, September 5 owed to precocious winds successful the incidental area," NPS officials said.

Coleman's origin of decease remains nether investigation, officials said.

Officials judge Coleman was hiking astir Logan Pass successful the nationalist parkland Monday, Aug. 30, oregon Tuesday, Aug. 31. Park rangers discovered her car successful the Logan Pass parking batch Wednesday afternoon, according to a parkland spokesperson.

"Glacier National Park would similar to convey the public’s effect to the extremity line," NPS officials wrote. "Although the extremity effect was not the 1 searchers hoped for, nationalist tips were cardinal to a faster solution of the search."

The AWARE Foundation of Virginia, which shares the stories of missing radical and victims of convulsive crime, released accusation that the 34-year-old Richmond pistillate and Roanoke autochthonal was past heard from via text.

"Jennifer sent the substance [on August 30] from Highline Trail/Logan Pass to Granite Park Chalet successful Montana," according to an email from the AWARE Foundation. "She was to prime up her dogs from a boarding installation the pursuing day, but ne'er showed to get them. A payment cheque was done astatine her campsite by the section sheriff’s office, wherever they discovered her belongings astatine the site. Her conveyance was located successful the parking batch for the Highline Trail."

Glacier National Park Spokesperson, Brandy Burke, told WTVR that teams had been retired searching Thursday and Friday connected the crushed and successful the sky, with K-9s searching done the trees. Officials said 50 radical had joined the hunt arsenic of Sunday.

Friends and household described Coleman arsenic a tough-as-nails experienced hiker.

Coleman's cousin, Will Coleman, told WTVR Friday helium was "lost for words."

"I was conscionable shocked and worried," Coleman said. "She's precise intelligent. She's precise smart. You know, she's grown up connected a workplace her full life. So, I cognize she has endurance instincts."

Anyone with accusation astir the incidental is asked to telephone the Glacier National Park tipline astatine 406-888-7077.

This communicative was primitively published by unit astatine WTVR.