Authorities search for missing hiker, 79, at Zion National Park

Authorities successful Utah were searching Friday for a 79-year-old hiker missing astatine Zion National Park.

The National Park Service said authorities were trying to find John Fiske Burg. He was past seen astatine 7 a.m. Tuesday leaving a La Quinta edifice successful Kanab, Utah.

Burg was staying determination with a radical of 50 hikers and “stated helium whitethorn hike the Canyon Overlook trail” astatine Zion, the Park Service said successful a connection Friday.

“Burg’s conveyance was recovered astatine the trailhead of the Canyon Overlook Trail,” the connection said. “It is chartless astatine this clip erstwhile Burg arrived astatine the trailhead.”

Search and rescue operations by the Park Service and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office were ongoing, causing closure of the Canyon Overlook Trail and Pine Creek Canyon.

Burg is 5 feet, 9 inches gangly and weighs 220 pounds. Authorities did not instantly place his spot of residence.

He has brownish hair, brownish eyes and whitethorn beryllium wearing a airy yellowish shirt, shorts, achromatic implicit airy reddish Salomon ankle-high hiking shoes, and a achromatic visor chapeau with cervix guard. His backpack is simply a dark, older backpack with a two-way vigor hanging from the near enarthrosis strap.

“Mr. Burg is besides known to usage 2 trekking poles achromatic implicit silver,” the Park Service connection said.

A extremity enactment is acceptable up astatine 888-653-0009. Tips whitethorn beryllium submitted online astatine http://go.nps.gov/SubmitATip oregon by email astatine nps_isb@nps.gov.

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