Searchers find bodies likely of missing Colorado hikers
Rescue crews recovered two bodies from a mountainside in the San Isabel National Forest on Saturday believed to be of a missing Colorado physician and his 20-year-old daughter.
The bodies were located in steep terrain at an elevation of 12,000 feet on the northeast side of Missouri Mountain within the forest, Chaffee County Sheriff W. Pete Palmer told Reuters.
Michael Von Gortler, 53, an emergency room physician from Boulder, Colorado, and his daughter Makana, a student at the University of Colorado, went missing after departing for a hike on June 21.