Search and Rescue Underway for Missing Hiker

Search and Rescue Underway for Missing Hiker

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on Sept. 12, 2016. It is reproduced in full below.

Denali National Park and Preserve staff and volunteers are currently searching for an overdue hiker.

Carlos Castrejon, a 45 year-old man from Mexico was last seen at about 2 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7, 2016. Castrejon, according to his companion, was heading for the abandoned Fairbanks Transit bus that is parked in a clearing along the Stampede Trail near Denali National Park on state land. The bus was popularized by the 1996 Jon Krakauer book, "Into the Wild," and a 2007 movie of the same name.

Castrejon is described as 5’7", 140 pounds, dark hair. When last seen, he was wearing a black jacket, gray pants, and carrying a gray and blue backpack.

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

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