Two drownings in Glacier Park on Saturday
Overlooking Avalanche Gorge on the Avalanche Creek Trail in May. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot)
Two young visitors drowned in two different areas of Glacier National Park on Saturday.
A 26-year-old male from India was hiking past the gorge on Avalanche Lake Trail when he went into Avalanche Creek around 8:30 am on Saturday morning. Friends and witnesses saw him go into the creek, go underwater, and resurface briefly before being swept up by the current and into the gorge.
Glacier National Park dispatch was alerted at 8:37 am. Park campground staff were on the scene almost immediately, followed by law enforcement rangers at about 9 am.
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