Missouri official vanished after Wyoming summit, found alive 5 days later
A Missouri deputy attorney general was rescued alive after going missing for five days in Wyoming's Wind River Range. He had successfully reached the summit of Gannett Peak but became lost during his descent due to severe weather conditions.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the extreme physical dangers associated with high-altitude mountaineering and the critical role of search and rescue operations in remote wilderness areas.
55-year-old Missouri deputy attorney general who had been missing in Wyoming's rugged Wind River Range for five days has been rescued alive, shortly after search crews confirmed that he had reached the 13,804-foot summit of Gannett Peak. Shaun Mackelprang was found on Wednesday morning, 26 August, walking in a confused state and severely dehydrated near Scott Lake, about eight and a half miles from the nearest trailhead. Searchers from Sublette County Search and Rescue and Tip Top Search and Rescue gave him intravenous fluids at the scene before flying him by helicopter to a medical facility in Pinedale. The rescue brought an end to a multi-day search across one of the most remote mountain wilderness areas in the United States.
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