Boy found alive after frantic search at US national park in California

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First a hiker, Jay Yambert, a 56-year-old tourist from Champaign, Illinois, visiting the Rocky Mountain National Park was lost on Sunday after returning from Longs Peak at the Colorado park.

First a hiker, Jay Yambert, a 56-year-old tourist from Champaign, Illinois, visiting the Rocky Mountain National Park was lost on Sunday after returning from Longs Peak at the Colorado park. He was found later on Monday and is safe.

They say he will stay overnight in the wilderness with the trail crew until a rescue flight can take place on Tuesday.

Also lucky is a 13-year-old hiker who was missing. He has been found alive in Kings Canyon National Park on Monday night at 9:30 pm.

Authorities say Austin Shedd of Carlsbad and Mammoth Lakes was located by a trail crew.

He got lost at Kings Canyon National Park. This is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California. The park was established in 1940 and covers 461,901 acres.

Park Rangers were looking for the missing hiker after he became separated from his party while hiking from Arrow Peak to Bench Lake on Sunday. Park officials did not release when the boy was reported missing or what search efforts were underway.

The 13-year-old, Austin Shedd, and his father, both from Mammoth Lakes (Mono County), along with a family friend, had hiked about eight hours into the back country, according to the Mammoth Times.

The boyโ€™s mother, is anxiously waiting in Independence, a small town west of the park, for their return.

The trio was hiking from Arrow Peak to Bench Lake in a remote area of Kings Canyon when the elder Shedd stopped to make sandwiches around 2:30 pm on Sunday.

Making lunch only took a few minutes, but when Sheddโ€™s father finished, the boy was gone.

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