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Mount Marcy on a spring evening after skiing from the summit. <\/p>\n
A 21-year-old hiker died after slipping off the trail near the summit of Mount Marcy, New York<\/a>\u2019s tallest peak, authorities said.<\/p>\n The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reported<\/a> that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) confirmed the victim, who was from New Jersey, was found dead near the summit area Thursday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials have not released the hiker\u2019s name or gender.<\/p>\n The NYSDEC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment, but a spokesperson for the state government agency told the Adirondack Daily Enterprise the hiker had called 911 at 3:05 p.m., saying they slipped and were unable to get back onto the trail.<\/p>\n 2 HIKERS IN OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST KILLED AFTER TREE FALLS ON POPULAR TRAIL<\/a><\/p>\n A dog was with the victim<\/a>, and it was not immediately clear whether anyone else was hiking with them or what caused the slip.<\/p>\n Two forest rangers tried to locate the hiker from a State Police helicopter, but heavy cloud cover<\/a> around Mount Marcy\u2019s summit prevented them from making visual contact, a NYSDEC spokesperson told the outlet.<\/p>\n Around 6:06 p.m., one of the rangers was dropped at the Marcy Dam Outpost<\/a> \u2014 roughly five miles from and nearly 3,000 feet below the summit \u2014 to begin a ground search.<\/p>\n The ranger then hiked toward the hiker\u2019s last known location near the summit and found the 21-year-old at 9:51 p.m., deceased, according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n NEARLY 70 SKIERS STRANDED IN MIDAIR FOR HOURS AFTER GONDOLA MALFUNCTIONS AT POPULAR RESORT<\/a><\/p>\n The dog was found alive and was led off the mountain by rangers, officials said, but poor weather conditions initially prevented crews from recovering the hiker\u2019s body.<\/p>\n A State Police helicopter transported two forest rangers to the site on Friday morning, where they were able to recover the hiker\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n “The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation offers its condolences to the family,” the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Read more of this story from FOX News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n New York<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Mount Marcy on a spring evening after skiing from the summit. A 21-year-old hiker died after slipping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-135330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}