A missing skier who was found deceased at Mount Rainier National Park has been identified.
Karen Jackmin, 38, of University Place, died from multiple blunt-force injuries on May 18. Her manner of death is listed as an accident, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office.
Jackmin's body was recovered on June 8. She was last heard from on May 18 before she set out on a ski tour above the Paradise area of the park. Park rangers initiated a search the next day as she was overdue to return, according to a news release from the park.
"A ground team of two rangers searched Deadhorse Creek Basin, Panorama Face, and Alta Vista, looking for tracks over the Nisqually drainage," the release said. "A team of two climbing rangers from Camp Muir looked over the Nisqually and Paradise glaciers and searched the Muir Snowfield to Pebble Creek and Panorama Point. A team of two volunteers conducted a visual search of the Nisqually drainage."
The park's helicopter located an unresponsive person who appeared to have fallen about 200 feet at the base of Pebble Creek's Moraine Falls. Park rangers recovered Jackmin's body during a period of favorable weather.
A memorial service was held for Jackmin at Evangelical Reformed Church in Tacoma on June 15, according to the church's website.
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