The body of a woman who was swept away in a flash flood in the Grand Canyon last week has been recovered, the National Park Service said.
Search teams had been looking for 33-year-old Chenoa Nickerson of Gilbert, Ariz., since she and her husband were swept into Havasu Creek about half a mile north of the Colorado River on Thursday afternoon.
Her husband was rescued by a rafting group, but Nickerson, who wasn’t wearing a life jacket, vanished. She was last seen about 100 yards above an area called the confluence, where Havasu Creek meets the Colorado River.
The confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River, where Chenoa Nickerson was last seen.
(National Park Service)
A commercial river expedition found Nickerson’s body about 11:30 a.m. Sunday about 19 miles downriver from where she disappeared.
