A well-loved Washington high school teacher, Harris Levinson, fell to his loss of life whereas mountaineering the John Muir Path. He was 61. The 211-mile John Muir Path snakes between Mount Whitney and Yosemite Nationwide Park in California. The Inyo County Sheriff’s Workplace says it first heard phrase a couple of lacking hiker on July 9, after Levinson failed to select up his meals cache. Sadly, Levinson fell just some miles into his solo backpacking journey.
“Mr. Levinson deliberate to start his hike on June 23 after placing in a meals resupply cache at Onion Valley that he deliberate to select up on June 29,” wrote Inyo County Search & Rescue in a Fb put up sharing the unhappy information. “On July 8, his meals cache had not been picked up, prompting a pal of Mr. Levinson to contact Sequoia-Kings NP. [. . .] Aided by information from Mr. Levinson’s satellite tv for pc messaging system, floor searchers situated the physique of Mr. Levinson at roughly 9,400 toes within the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek, apparently the sufferer of a deadly fall.”
Updates From a Household Pal
Carolyn McCarthy, a pal of Levinson’s, provided additional updates on CaringBridge.org with permission from the sufferer’s household. McCarthy wrote:
“Now we have simply acquired phrase from the coroner’s workplace. I’m so sorry to report that Harris was discovered lifeless. He fell 100’ off a ledge down right into a gully. It’s clear that he died on impression. We’re grateful to know that he didn’t undergo.”
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Apparently, McCarthy additionally notes that Levinson was not on the appropriate path. He fell from the climber’s route.
“For causes we don’t absolutely perceive, he was mountaineering the climber’s route up Mt. Whitney,” she mentioned. “Not like the primary John Muir Path, this path is treacherous and troublesome, and never very properly traveled. He died on June 23, his first day of mountaineering and just some miles into his solo backpack journey.”
See Inyo County Search & Rescue’s Fb put up concerning the instructor who died on the John Muir Path:
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