The body of a Colorado man who went missing last weekend during a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park has been found, officials said Thursday.
Search helicopters found 25-year-old Peter Jeffris' body about 200 feet below the Ledges part of the Keyhole Route, which is located on the park's Longs Peak, officials told 7 News Denver.
Jeffris, of Broomfield, was last seen Sunday when he told friends he was going to climb the 14,259-foot-tall Longs Peak. He was reported missing on Monday when he did not show up for work, the station reported. A car belonging to the victim was found in the Longs Peak trailhead parking lot.
Crews from Rocky Mountain Rescue and Colorado Search and Rescue Board among other agencies began searching for Jeffris on Monday, but it wasn't until Thursday when weather conditions were favorable enough to allow an aerial search, the Coloradoan reported.
Rescuers were dropped off at a landing spot in the Glacier Gorge drainage before ascending 1,800 feet to recover the body, which was taken to the Boulder County Coroner, 7 News Denver reported. As of Friday it is not clear how the University of Colorado graduate died.
According to Jeffris' LinkedIn page he was a robotic research intern at Altius Space Machines in Broomfield.
His death marks the third time this year someone has died on Long Peaks, one of Colorado's most-climbed mountains that rise above 14,000 feet, also known as "fourteeners," according to the Coloradoan.
