Missing Mount Rainier Climber’s Body Found in Crevasse; He Was Celebrating 80th Birthday

The top of Mount Rainier glows with the shades of the sunset as a paddle border goes past Pat Carey Park off Tracyton Blvd on July 1, 2014. Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall/AP Photo

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.—Search crews on Mount Rainier have found and recovered the body of a man matching the description of an 80-year-old solo climber reported missing last week, Mount Rainier National Park officials said.

Dawes Eddy of Spokane, Washington, embarked on a solo climb on May 30 and was last seen that night heading up hill on an area of the 14,441-foot (4,402-meter) mountain known as Cathedral Gap, Park officials said Tuesday in a statement.