{"id":86066,"date":"2022-05-18T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/tourist-dies-near-mendenhall-glacier\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:30:00","slug":"tourist-dies-near-mendenhall-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/tourist-dies-near-mendenhall-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist dies near Mendenhall Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tourist visiting Juneau aboard a cruise ship experienced a medical emergency and died Wednesday around noon while at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.<\/p>\n<p>The visitor, a 72-year-old man and U.S. resident, was with his wife at the time, said Juneau Police Department public safety manager Erann Kalwara.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The call came in at 11:48 yesterday that there was a man who was unconscious in the glacier observatory. At that time, he was believed to be breathing,&rdquo; Kalwara said in a phone interview. &ldquo;Fire units got on scene about 15 minutes later and began CPR.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead on the scene, and the death is not considered suspicious, Kalwara said, though the specific cause of death is unknown. Capital City Fire.\/Rescue was not involved in transporting the body, said Assistant Chief Ed Quinto. The deceased man&rsquo;s wife worked with guest services aboard the cruise ship to make arrangements, Kalwara said.<\/p>\n<p>The death comes a day after another tourist went <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/search-for-cruise-passenger-reported-overboard-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing after falling overboard<\/a> in the Lynn Canal early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death is not considered suspicious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":86067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75,32],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-86066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86066","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86066"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}