MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) - A man was found dead Sunday apparently of a fall from Symmetry Spire in Grand Teton National Park.
Ben Carlson-Berne, 19, of Wyoming, Ohio, was found at the bottom of a steep gorge by park rangers on a routine mountain patrol.
Carlson-Berne was apparently solo climbing Friday away from the normal route for Symmetry Spire, which is about 20 miles north of Jackson, when he reached technically difficult steep rock. He was wearing a helmet.
Rangers are estimating he slipped and fell 150 feet.
His body was flown out of the park Sunday in a helicopter.
According to the National Park Service, Carlson-Berne had signed up on Friday to camp for several nights in Garnet Canyon beginning Saturday.
His backcountry camping permit indicated he intended to climb the Southwest Couloir on the Middle Teton and climb the Owen-Spalding route on the Grand Teton. A couloir is a steep gorge.
Carlson-Berne had stowed his camping gear in a locker at the Jenny Lake store before going climbing on Friday, indicating that he was planning only a day climb.
It was the second fatality in the mountains this year and the sixth major search and rescue operation.
