File Photo: Moran Point at the Grand Canyon National Park. (Brandon Neuman / NAZ Today)
Update: The body retrieved from below Moran Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on Monday, July 12 has been positively identified as that of 50 year old Kirby Porter of Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Grand Canyon (NAZ Today)- The National Park Service at the Grand Canyon is reporting that they have recovered the body of man below the canyon rim at Moran Point. On Sunday night, the Grand Canyon Regional Communication Center received a report that a man was seen exiting a car, climbing over a retaining wall and lying down on the edge of the canyon rim.
Rangers arrived at Moran point and located the car, but no sign of the man. An initial search was carried out at Moran point, but had to be postponed until daylight. On Monday morning rescue rangers and the park’s helicopter were brought in and began searching below the rim. At approximately 12:00 noon, the helicopter’s crew spotted the body of a man approximately 250 feet below the rim.
Park rangers were flown into a location near the body to prepare it for transport and to conduct on-site investigations into the incident. The body was transported to the South Rim helibase by helicopter via long-line operation (suspended below the helicopter by a fixed line) where it will be transferred to the Coconino County Medical Examiner.
The identity of the man has not yet been released, and the National Park Service is conducting an investigation into the incident.
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