A person climbing in Glacier Nationwide Park in Montana this week was killed by a bear within the first such fatality in that wilderness space in additional than 25 years, the authorities stated.
The hiker, Anthony Pollio, 33, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was final heard from on Sunday night. His disappearance was reported on Monday, the National Park Service said.
Mr. Pollio had deliberate to hike to the Mount Brown Fireplace Lookout, a steep trail close to Lake McDonald.
Rangers looked for Mr. Pollio with assist from an area search-and-rescue staff and aerial sources, the Park Service stated.
On Wednesday, his stays had been discovered roughly 50 toes off the Mount Brown Path, the Park Service said.
Mr. Pollio’s private belongings had been discovered two and a half miles from the trailhead.
“His accidents are per these sustained by a bear encounter,” the Park Service said on Saturday. Proof suggests it “was a shock encounter,” the service stated.
Glacier Nationwide Park didn’t return a request for touch upon Saturday afternoon.
A number of trails, together with the Mount Brown path, remained closed whereas park rangers inspected the world for bear exercise, the service stated.
Deadly bear encounters are unusual within the park.
Excluding this week’s fatality, 10 people have died in bear assaults because the park was established in 1910. The final individual killed by a bear was Craig Dahl on Could 17, 1998, in response to the Park Service.
In August 2025, a 34-year-old lady climbing close to Lake Janet was injured by a “brown-colored bear,” the Park Service stated. In that episode, the bear swiped on the lady, injuring her shoulder and arm.
One other one who was climbing with the girl sprayed bear spray and the bear ran away. The lady who was attacked was hospitalized in secure situation, the authorities stated on the time.
Glacier Nationwide Park, which is south of the Canadian border in northwestern Montana, has the next density of grizzly bears than some other park within the continental United States, in response to Pursuit, a wilderness tour operator.
The park is residence to almost 1,000 bears, together with black and grizzly populations, in response to the park’s website.
Mr. Pollio’s deadly bear encounter at Glacier Nationwide Park occurred the identical week that two hikers had been injured in a bear assault at Yellowstone Nationwide Park in Wyoming, in response to the Park Service.
On Monday, a 15-year-old boy and 28-year-old man had been climbing the Mystic Falls path close to the Previous Devoted geyser once they had been injured, the Park Service stated.
Park workers members imagine {that a} feminine grizzly bear and two or three cubs had been concerned.
The hikers had been airlifted to a hospital, the place one was in important situation and the opposite in critical situation, The Jackson Hole News and Guidea newspaper in Jackson, Wyo., reported.
A number of areas of Yellowstone remained closed as of Saturday due to the bear encounter, the Park Service stated.
The final bear-related accidents reported in Yellowstone had been in September 2025, when a person obtained “vital however non-life-threatening” accidents to his chest and left arm, the Park Service stated on the time.
