National Park Service
A Texas man died Tuesday while hiking to the Phantom Ranch lodge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service said.
At around 11:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Grand Canyon National Park officials received a report of an unresponsive hiker on the South Kaibab Trail, below Cedar Ridge. Bystanders initiated CPR while park medics and volunteers responded to the scene on foot, but lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful.
The hiker was identified by park officials only as a 67-year-old man from Alvarado, Texas. The man was hiking to the Colorado River for an overnight stay at Phantom Ranch, on the North Rim’s North Kaibab Trail…