Wisconsin man dies hiking in Glacier

A Wisconsin man died Monday afternoon while hiking on the Siyeh Pass trail.

The 43-year-old man from Waupun, Wisconsin, was hiking with his family.

The Glacier County Coroner indicates the death appears to be due to natural causes. His name has not been released.

According to information from Glacier National Park, park officials received a report at 4:45 p.m. that a man had collapsed and was unresponsive on the Siyeh Pass trail, approximately 1 mile from the trailhead at Siyeh Bend.

Glacier National Park employees responded from Going-to-the-Sun Road on foot. Other hikers, including the man’s stepson, were performing CPR when National Park Service staff arrived.

Rangers also used an automatic external defibrillator to attempt to resuscitate the victim, but these efforts were unsuccessful.

It is the third death in the park in 2020. One man died while hiking in the North Fork region, while another fell off a cliff while climbing off-trail in an area known as the Dragon’s Tail, just southwest of Mount Reynolds.