{"id":630511,"date":"2026-05-08T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:45:14","slug":"missing-hiker-found-dead-in-glacier-national-park-injuries-consistent-with-bear-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630511\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing hiker found dead in Glacier National Park, injuries consistent with bear encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST GLACIER, Mont. \u2014 The body of a missing hiker was found around noon Wednesday in Glacier National Park, with injuries consistent with a bear encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue crews located the victim about 2 1\/2 miles up the Mount Brown Trail and about 50 feet off the trail in a densely wooded area with downed timber. Wildlife and law enforcement personnel were assessing the area for bear activity and any ongoing public safety concerns as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n<p>The National Park Service said it is withholding the victim\u2019s identity for now.<\/p>\n<p>The section of trail where the incident occurred was temporarily closed while the investigation continues. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>In Glacier National Park, the last human fatality caused by a bear occurred in 1998 in the Two Medicine Valley. The last time a bear injured a human was in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST GLACIER, Mont. \u2014 The body of a missing hiker was found around noon Wednesday in Glacier National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-630511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}