Published: July 2nd, 2009 12:18 PM
Last Modified: July 2nd, 2009 12:18 PM
JUNEAU-- A teenager reported missing on Mount McGinnis has been found dead.
Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers, says the body of the 16-year-old boy was discovered late Wednesday but retrieval efforts were put off until Thursday because of poor weather on the 4,228-foot mountain.
Alaska State Troopers a got a call Wednesday afternoon that the boy had been separated from the two friends with whom he was hiking. Trooper Jeff Landvatter said the hikers were on top of the mountain when one set his backpack down and it slipped off a ledge. The boy went after it and never came back.
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