'We're really glad to be able to reunite him with his family,' a park spokeswoman said. 'It's a great ending.'
Martin Edward O'Connor, 58, of La Porte, Texas, was evacuated from the inner canyon by a National Park Service helicopter at around 10 a.m., a day after hikers reported seeing him along the New Hance Trail, the park said in a statement.He was cleared and released by emergency services, Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Lily Daniels said in a phone interview Thursday.
Daniels did not know how O’Connor ended up in the inner canyon or if he had been outside the entire time he was missing, but she said when he was found he had"limited resources."O’Connor was found about three miles from the trailhead of New Hance Trail, which leads to the river, and she estimated that he was at around 4,000 feet elevation.
The hikers who spotted O’Connor reported the sighting late Wednesday afternoon, but because of the sunset the helicopter was not sent in until Thursday, Daniels said. While Daniels said she did not know whether O’Connor had been in the elements the entire time he was missing, she said that temperatures reached the 20s at night in the area where he was found.La Porte is a city of around 33,800 east of Houston.
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