She had started with a traveling companion, but the other hiker left the trail because of a family emergency. "It will be the greatest kindness for them to know that I am dead where you found me — no matter how many years from now." The battery on her cellphone was dead, but investigators were able to retrieve the data. Her husband, George Largay, told wardens that the Appalachian Trail journey from Georgia to Maine's Mount Katahdin was a bucket list item for her. "When you find my body, please call my husband George ... and my daughter Kerry," Largay, who was 66 years old, wrote in a page that was torn out of her journal.

Source: Fox News May 25, 2016 19:12 UTC