BIG HORN COUNTY, Wyoming – The body of a missing Minnesota man has been found in Wyoming.

The Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office says a professional climbing team from North Carolina summited Cloud Peak on Tuesday and descended on the northern route of the peak, prior to a summit attempt on Woolsey Peak the next day. The climbers made a high altitude camp for the evening and noticed a slight reflection a few hundred feet above them underneath a ledge.

The climbers said they were confident it was a backpack but could not investigate due to the rapidly approaching darkness. The climbing team notified the Sheriff’s Office via satellite of their finding and agreed to abort their plans and wait for search and rescue (SAR) teams to arrive at daylight.

On Wednesday, teams launched from the Gre

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