AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Remains of last missing Grand Canyon flood victim identified as Wyoming pilot Timothy Allen Smith
Three weeks after flash floods tore through the Grand Canyon and killed three backcountry hikers, rangers recovered the body of the last missing man, a 53-year-old Wyoming pilot whose wife confirmed the news on Facebook. Grand Canyon National Park rangers found human remains Monday near Crystal Rapids on the Colorado River, and by Thursday, the […] The post Remains of last missing Grand Canyon flood victim identified as Wyoming pilot Timothy Allen Smith appeared first on American Almanac .
Three weeks after flash floods tore through the Grand Canyon and killed three backcountry hikers, rangers recovered the body of the last missing man, a 53-year-old Wyoming pilot whose wife confirmed the news on Facebook. Grand Canyon National Park rangers found human remains Monday near Crystal Rapids on the Colorado River, and by Thursday, the family of Timothy Allen Smith had received the answer they had been dreading. Smith, a pilot who lived in Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming, about 40 miles southwest of Jackson, was the third and final confirmed fatality from the Aug. 29 flash flooding that devastated campgrounds deep inside the canyon . His two companions, John Giusti, 46, and Brent Rosenkranz, 42, both of Granbury, Texas, had already…Open