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Missing Montana hiker believed to have died in accident in Beartooth Mountains Associated Press View Comments BILLINGS — Searchers looking for a Montana State University graduate student who disappeared while hiking in the Beartooth Mountains in southern Montana say they do not believe she is still alive. Red Lodge Fire Rescue said in a statement Saturday evening that after nearly a week of intense search efforts, it's unlikely Tatum Morell, 23, survived, The Billings Gazette reported. “It is believed that Tatum had a tragic accident and was unable to activate her inReach device,” the ...

Missing Montana hiker believed to have died in accident AP News Staff Updated at Share This Tatum ‘Tate’ Morell | Courtesy Carbon County Montana Sheriff’s Office BILLINGS, Montana (AP) — Searchers looking for a Montana State University graduate student who disappeared while hiking in the Beartooth Mountains in southern Montana say they do not believe she is still alive. Red Lodge Fire Rescue said in a statement Saturday evening that after nearly a week of intense search efforts, it’s unlikely Tatum Morell, 23, survived, The Billings Gazette reported. “It is believed that Tatum h...

Rescuers searching for a lost hiker in the Beartooth Mountains believe the young woman is not alive. Tatum Morell, a 23-year-old Montana State University student from Idaho, was an experienced backcountry hiker and had planned to summit five peaks over 12,000 feet from a base camp in the West Fork of the Rock Creek drainage. She last spoke with her mother July 1 through a Garmin InReach satellite communicator. It is believed that she left her tent at Shadow Lake the next morning and never returned. After nearly a week of intense search efforts in the mountains near Red Lodge, rescuers now bel...