
A | SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- A pilot from France who disappeared while hiking California's towering Mount Whitney was found dead after falling about 1,000 feet (305 meters) off a cliff, the National Park Service said Friday.The hiker was identified as Tom Gerbier of Fontenay-sous-Bois, France, who was a pilot for Air France, the park service said in a statement. He was 38, according to a missing poster issued by the Inyo County Sheriff's Office, which was part of the search. The tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney rises 14,494 feet (4,418 meters) on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park and is a difficult but popular hike. Gerbier started out at Whitney Portal near the town of Lone Pine early Tuesday and was reported missing when he didn't show up for his return flight Wednesday, the park service said. The park service and local authorities sent ground teams to the area Thursday.The searchers spotted clues that someone may have fallen off a cliff in an area called “The Notch,” and a helicopter crew directed there spotted a motionless person in clothing matching Gerbier's description.The body was recovered by helicopter that evening, and the Tulare County Sheriff's Office confirmed Gerbier's identity. Air France said in a statement that Gerbier had been on a stopover in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. "The company offers its most sincere condolences to his family and loved ones,” the airline said.。 "There was a call for a threat at that location, an individual we believe suffering from a mental health crisis contacted a hotline making some threats to himself and to others, which the hotline then contacted 911," the spokesperson said on Friday. "The address that was given to the hotline which then was given to MPD was in the 200 block of A Street northeast, which prompted MPD to respond.",The spokesperson said Bannon was at the residence when police officers responded but they are not sure if that is his residence or what his affiliation is what that location.,Police officers investigated the situation and concluded that there was no threat to the residence it later appeared to be a so-called "swatting" call.,A swathing call is when a person calls in a false report of an emergency in order to draw the police's attention to a particular area or person.,There is no one currently in custody in connection to the incident, the spokesperson said.。
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