PORTLAND (AP) — Searchers are carrying a body down Mount Hood from the glacier where it was spotted by a helicopter crew looking for a missing climber.
Sgt. Dan Kraus of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office says the recovery team set out around 3 a.m. Sunday and reached the body around 11 a.m.
He expects them to complete their climb by 9 p.m.
Officials believe the body is likely Kinley Adams, a 59-year-old Salem dentist who failed to return June 22 from a climb on the west side of Oregon’s tallest mountain.
Kraus says they won’t be able to identify him until the body is transferred to the medical examiner.