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Avalanche Creek rushes through the gorge near the start of the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park on Thursday, July 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

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Glacier National Park rangers recover body of drowning victim in Avalanche Creek
August 3, 2024 8 p.m.

Glacier National Park rangers recover body of drowning victim in Avalanche Creek

Glacier National Park officials believe the body of 26-year-old Siddhant Vitthal Patil from India was recovered on Saturday after weeks of searching for the drowning victim, according to a press release.

Like many of Glacier’s waterways, Avalanche Creek has a deadly past
July 14, 2024 midnight

Like many of Glacier’s waterways, Avalanche Creek has a deadly past

Charles Green was working as a Civilian Conservation Corps supervisor in Glacier National Park in 1941 when he was called to retrieve a body from Avalanche Creek. In his book “Montana Memories, Volume IV” he describes the gorge in all its beauty and danger.