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Authorities have recovered the body of a 64-year-old tourist from Chicago who apparently fell to his death while hiking near a mountain resort in the Twin Peaks southeast of Salt Lake City.
Unified police said Saturday that William Pierce took the tram up the mountain at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort on Wednesday and texted his family a photo of the view about 7:45 that evening.
That’s the last the family heard from him. They reported him missing Friday morning when he missed a flight home.
Investigators tracked Pierce’s rental car to a parking lot at Snowbird. Unified police detective Ken Hansen said the photo that Pierce texted helped them locate his body. “It’s steep terrain and I think that based on the picture, we knew it was steep terrain and it gave us a place to look. It’s open terrain and if you lose your footing it’s a tough recovery,” Hansen said.
A state public safety helicopter spotted Pierce’s body in an area where it apparently fell about 400 feet down a steep, rocky grade.
