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The authorities said on Thursday that the Minnesota traveler was found a deceased in the Bejuran Mountains in Wyoming, about a month after sending a final text message to his wife and did not hear again.
The Big Horn County Office said in a statement in a statement that the body of Grant Gardner, 38, was found under the edge of the peak cloud of 13,000 feet by a professional Carolina professional climbing team.
“Although it is not the result that we were hoping, we hope that this peace and closure will be provided for to the family,” Sharif’s office said.
Gardner disappeared on July 29 in The Cloud Peak Wilderness, where he had planned to raise a three -day lifting across the Misty Moon Lake area before he finally summarized Cloud Peak.
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Grant Gardner, 38, heard the last time on July 29 after he summarized the 13,000 -foot cloud peak in the Bejorn Mountains in Wyoming. His body was discovered on August 26. (Big Horn County Office)
Sharif’s office said that the phone records showed the last well -known contact of Gardner, which was a message to his wife on that day, “he told her that he had reached the top.” The authorities said that the text indicated that “climbing was the most tax of what he expected and was tired.”
In the weeks that followed, the Sharif Office, the search and rescue teams and the volunteers combed the wild tirelessly to get Gardner’s signs without success.
Search and rescue teams in Cloud Peak Wilderness looked for Gardner signs without success in the weeks that followed his disappearance on July 29, 2025. (Big Horn County Office)
On Tuesday, the professional climbing team photographed a Cloud Peak and began to go down on the northern road when they made a high camp on the height and noticed “a slight reflection a few hundred of feet over it below the edge,” said Sharif’s office.
The climbers believed that it was a backpack and informed the Sharif office via the satellite. They agreed to postpone their plans and wait for rescuers.
When the rescuers reached broad daylight, they found Gardner’s remains near the backpack, as Sharif’s office said, adding that his clothes were “closely” corresponding to the terrain where he was climbing and was difficult to notice.
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Gardner’s body was recovered from the mountain and brought to his family.
Gardner’s wife previously told a local news outlet that her husband liked to go on a single height. (Big Horn County Office)
The 38 -year -old is the father of two children, between the ages of 13 and 11 years, The state of cowboy daily I mentioned. His wife, Lauren, told the former executive that her husband was walking for more than a decade and wanted to go alone.
“Everything is definitely surreal.” “I am shocking, I think, and I try to stay strong for children. This never happened in all the years in which he came out. He knows what he is doing and has skills. I only hope now.”
Sharif’s office indicated that the case was given to the Big Horn Coroner County Office to determine the time, method and cause of death as is routine.
“Nothing should be read on this transition,” said Sharif’s office. “We believe that Gardner surrendered to a tragic accident, as we all all already.”
Sharif also thanked the professional climbing team for their help, saying that they were in the right place at the right time.
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“Thank you for a wonderful professional group of technical climbers who were in the right place completely, in time, with the right light, to notice a small piece of fabric on a package that cannot be discovered otherwise, for thwarting their plans without selfishness and working with SAR teams to find Gardner, and providing the closure of his family,” she said.
Fox News Greg Norman contributed to this report.