A hiker was found dead after camping overnight at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, park officials say.
The 41-year-old man, who has not been publicly identified, was discovered “unresponsive” along the Bright Angel Trail, just east of the Pipe Creek River Resthouse, on Sunday morning, according to the National Park Service (NPS). .
“All attempts by bystanders and National Park Service personnel to resuscitate the individual were unsuccessful,” officials said. “The hiker was a 41-year-old man leaving the canyon after spending the night at Bright Angel Campground near Phantom Ranch.”
“The NPS is conducting an investigation into the incident in coordination with the Coconino County Medical Examiner,” the NPS added.
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The area of the Grand Canyon where park officials say the hiker was found dead. (NPS/J. Baird)
The death comes after dozens of hikers visiting Havasupai Falls near Grand Canyon National Park recently reported they had become seriously ill from a mystery illness.
In some cases, visitors were too sick to leave the canyon on foot and needed to be transported by helicopter.
Maylin Griffiths, who visited the falls in Arizona to celebrate her 40th birthday, told AZ Family that her trip quickly turned into a nightmare after she suddenly became seriously ill.
“Us [left] early in the morning of the 6th and then set up camp. We had a wonderful camp,” Griffiths said. “I was throwing up, just having a lot of gastrointestinal issues, and then it progressively got worse and worse.”
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Visitors walk through a stone arch on Bright Angel Trail within Grand Canyon National Park in June 2015. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Another friend in her group also became seriously ill, and the group ended up walking several miles to a town in the canyon to receive medical care.
“He found out our temperatures were very high. Mine was 104 and my friend was 105. We were seriously ill. They were able to admit us to the clinic there because they considered it life-threatening,” Griffiths told the outlet.
This photo provided by Randy Shannon shows Mooney Falls on the Havasupai Reservation outside the town of Supai, Arizona, on May 19. Dozens of tourists say they fell ill during a recent visit to a popular, picturesque stretch of waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon National Park. (Randy Shannon via AP)
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Havasupai Falls is located on the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Coconino County. In a Facebook post, the Havasupai Tribe Tourism Office wrote that public water sources on the reservation are tested periodically and were last determined to be safe for human consumption by the Havasupai Water Department on June 6.
Fox News' Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
