A 21-year-old hiker from New Jersey was found dead as a result of hypothermia near the summit of New York’s tallest mountain, according to police.
Brianna Mohr, of Brick, had been hiking with her dog on Mount Marcy when New York State Forest Rangers got a distress call around 3 p.m. on Feb. 12, state police said. Mohr told rangers that she had slipped off the trail near the summit and wasn’t able to get back to it, a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation told the Asbury Park Press.
About six hours later, rangers found Mohr’s body near the summit of the mountain in the Adirondacks. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her dog was rescued unhurt.
An autopsy performed two days after she was found determined Mohr’s cause of death to be hypothermia.
Memorial services for Mohr will be held Feb. 28.
An obituary posted by a funeral home said Mohr, who was born and raised in Brick and graduated from Brick Memorial High School, “enjoyed hiking and the outdoors” and had traveled to nearly all 50 states.