Just after 11 a.m., Emily Sotelo’s body was discovered on the northwest slope of Mount Lafayette in Franconia. Emily would have turned 20 on Wednesday. The NH Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division and Operation Game Thief announced on Wednesday that the body of a hiker last seen on Sunday morning in New Hampshire had been located.
According to Fish and Game, Emily Sotelo’s body was discovered shortly after 11 a.m. on the northwest slope of Mount Lafayette near Franconia. Emily would have turned 20 on Wednesday.
According to reports, Sotelo left off at Lafayette Place Campground in Franconia on Sunday morning to hike Mount Lafayette, Haystack Mountain, and Mount Flume. Later that day, a family member notified New Hampshire Fish and Game after she failed to return from her planned path.
Officials started looking for her that evening and were looking all night because they were concerned about the severe weather. Fish and Game stated that “searchers were impeded by heavy winds, frigid temperatures, and blowing snow.”
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At the headwaters of Lafayette Brook on Tuesday in the late afternoon, Sotelo’s tracks and personal items were found, according to authorities. On Wednesday, the crew made an effort to concentrate the search there.
Ground searchers around 11:15 am discovered her corpse, and her remains were flown to the Cannon Mountain Ski Area by a helicopter from the New Hampshire Army National Guard.
Although Sotelo’s cause of death has not been formally determined, Capt. Michael Eastman of the Law Enforcement Division of New Hampshire Fish and Game told NBC10 Boston that she most likely passed away from exposure to the weather. In addition to exercise pants, Sotelo was last seen wearing a brown jacket.
According to Col. Kevin Jordan, chief of law enforcement for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, the Westford, Massachusetts, resident attempted to summit every 4,000-foot mountain in New Hampshire before her 20th birthday this week.
She was a skilled hiker for warm weather. Not really in the winter,” Olivera Sotelo, her mother, told the Globe, adding that she had “four or five” mountains remaining to conquer.
According to The Vanderbilt Hustler, the campus newspaper in Nashville, Sotelo was a sophomore at Vanderbilt University with a double major in biochemistry and chemical biology. She reportedly travelled to New Hampshire for her Thanksgiving break with her mum.
The Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team, Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue Team, Mountain Rescue Service, Lakes Region Search and Rescue, Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, New England K-9, NH Army National Guard, Civil Air Patrol, and White Mountain National Forest all assisted Fish and Game conservation officers during the search. The search was also assisted by AT&T First Net and New Hampshire Homeland Security & Emergency Management.
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