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A hiker in Minnesota is already in Wyoming Authorities said Thursday that the Bighorn Mountains had not heard it again after he sent his last text message to his wife for nearly a month.
Body’s body Grant GardnerThe Greater Horn County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that a professional rock climbing team in North Carolina found the 38-year-old under a ledge near the top of the 13,000-foot Cloud Peak.
“While this is not the result we hope, we hope this will provide families with much-needed peace and closure,” the sheriff’s office said.
Gardner disappeared on July 29 in the Cloud Peak wilderness, where he planned a three-day hike through the foggy Moon Lake area before finally climbing the Cloud Peak.
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Grant Gardner, 38, heard last time after he summited the 13,000-foot cloud peak on Bighorn Hill, Wyoming on July 29. His body was found on August 26. (Grand Horn County Sheriff’s Office)
Gardner’s last contact was a message to his wife that day, “let her know he’s reached the top of the mountain” Sheriff’s Office Already said. Authorities said the text stated: “The climb was higher than he expected and he was tired.”
In the following weeks, the sheriff’s office, search and rescue teams and volunteers relentlessly tidy up the wilderness For Gardner’s signs without success.
The search and rescue team searched the Cloud Peak Wilderness within the weeks after its disappearance on July 29, 2025 to obtain signs of Gardner. (Grand Horn County Sheriff’s Office)
The sheriff’s office said a professional climbing team climbed the Cloud Peak on Tuesday and began descending on the northern route of the Peak when they set up a high-altitude camp and noticed “a few hundred feet below the ledge”.
The climbers believed it was a backpack and notified the sheriff’s office via satellite. They agreed to postpone the plan and wait for rescue workers to arrive.
When rescuers arrived during the day, they found Gardner’s body near his body, his clothes “very tightly” matching the terrain he climbed, and it was hard to notice.
Gardner’s body was recovered from the hill and was taken home to his family.
Gardner’s wife had previously told local news outlets that her husband likes to hike alone. (Grand Horn County Sheriff’s Office)
The 38-year-old father is the father of two children aged 13 and 11. Cowboys Daily Report. His wife Lauren had previously told the media that her husband had been hiking for more than a decade and loved solo.
“It’s definitely surreal,” she told the media while still conducting a search. “I think, I was shocked and tried to stay strong for the kids. This has never happened in all the years he was out. He knew what he was doing and had the skills. I hope now.”
The Sheriff’s Office noted that the case was awarded to the Greater Horn County Coroner’s Office to determine the daily time, method and cause of death.
“This transition should not be read,” the sheriff’s office said. “We believe Gardner succumbed to the tragic accident we all speculated.”
The Sheriff’s Office also thanks professionals Climbing Team For their help, say they are in the right place at the right time.
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Special thanks to a spectacular group of professional climbers who were in the right place at the right time, with the right lights, noticed a small piece of fabric on the packaging that could have been undetectable and could selflessly stop their plans and work with the SAR team to find the Gardner to close with the family. ”
Fox News’s Greg Norman contributed to the report.
