Suicide Victim Found In Park

On the evening of Monday, July 2nd, the park’s communication center was notified of the discovery of the body of a young man hanging from the railroad trestle above Riley Creek. Rangers responded and found the body hanging by a rope looped around the neck from one of the low girders of the train trestle at ground level. The victim was identified as a 21-year-old man from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, who was employed as a seasonal worker at the Denali Bluffs Hotel, located outside of the park near the entrance to the Denali Park Road. He was last seen alive sometime on Saturday, June 30th. All indications are that the death is a suicide, but the investigation is continuing.