The physique of a girl who was swept away in a flash flood within the Grand Canyon final week has been recovered, the Nationwide Park Service mentioned.
Search groups had been on the lookout for 33-year-old Chenoa Nickerson of Gilbert, Ariz., since she and her husband had been swept into Havasu Creek about half a mile above the Colorado River on Thursday afternoon.
Her husband was rescued by a rafting group, however Nickerson, who wasn’t sporting a life jacket, vanished. She was final seen about 100 yards above an space referred to as the confluence, the place Havasu Creek meets the Colorado River.
The confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River, the place Chenoa Nickerson was final seen.
(Nationwide Park Service)
A industrial river expedition discovered Nickerson’s physique about 11:30 a.m. Sunday about 19 miles downriver from the place she disappeared.
