{"id":24175,"date":"2016-07-26T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/hiker-missing-in-denali-national-park-found-after-search\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:00:36","slug":"hiker-missing-in-denali-national-park-found-after-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/hiker-missing-in-denali-national-park-found-after-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker missing in Denali National Park found after search"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENALI NATIONAL PARK \u2014 A missing hiker has been found in good condition after a two-day search at Denali National Park and Preserve.<\/p>\n

A helicopter crew spotted the 42-year-old hiker Sunday night about six miles from where he was last seen Friday.<\/p>\n

Park officials identified him as Mukunda Egen from California, who is seasonally employed in the area. No hometown was given.<\/p>\n

The park said in a release that he was transported to park headquarters.<\/p>\n

Egen and a friend started a day hike Friday afternoon from the Teklanika Campground.<\/p>\n

They separated and then lost sight of each other in foggy conditions.<\/p>\n

Egen\u2019s companion searched and didn\u2019t return to the campground until 4 a.m. Saturday, when park rangers were notified.<\/p>\n

A search began later that morning that involved more than 50 people, including ground teams, two helicopters and two rescue dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DENALI NATIONAL PARK \u2014 A missing hiker has been found in good condition after a two-day search at Denali National Park and Preserve. A helicopter crew spotted the 42-year-old hiker Sunday night about six miles from where he was last seen Friday. Park officials identified him as Mukunda Egen from California, who is seasonally employed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24175"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}