An employee of Yellowstone National Park went missing more than a week ago after ascending a mountain summit by himself. Authorities are currently looking for him. Around 7 p.m. on September 17, 2024, Austin King, 22, was last heard from. At that point, he made a family phone call from the summit of Eagle Peak, as per the National Park Service (NPS). King was dropped off by boat on September 14 and met the following Monday near Howell Creek with a backcountry ranger.
According to the NPS, King called a family member on September 14 and reported the wind, fog, sleet, hail, and rain. He also claimed he was going to spend the night at site 6D8 and planned to climb Eagle Peak. King, a native of Minnesota, was employed by Yellowstone National Park to run concessions. When he didn’t show up for his boat pickup in Yellowstone Lake’s Southeast Arm on Friday, the Yellowstone Interagency Communications Center reported that he was overdue.
Ground and helicopter search activities were conducted in Eagle Peak’s high mountain regions on Saturday morning as part of the search and rescue operations. King’s camp was located by rescuers on Saturday night in the upper Howell Creek region. The search operation includes around twenty ground searchers, two helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and a search dog team. King is characterized as 150 pounds in weight, six feet tall, and has spectacles and tattoos. According to NPS, he was last spotted carrying a “dark-colored” backpack and sporting gray leggings and a black hoodie.
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