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PHOENIX<\/strong> – The hiker whose body was recovered from Camelback Mountain<\/strong><\/a> on Tuesday morning has been identified by loved ones as 63-year-old Harald Schindler.<\/p>\n Harald Schindler. Photo courtesy of the Phoenix Police Department <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to friends, loved ones, and a close colleague, Schindler was a longtime employee of a German company who had traveled to the Valley from Mexico City for the first time.<\/p>\n He was reported missing to Phoenix Police by worried family members and friends, who last heard from him on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n A drone located Schindler on Monday afternoon, off the Echo Canyon Trail in a secluded area of the mountain. Due to the challenging terrain, crews had to wait until Tuesday morning at daybreak to carry out the technical recovery operation.<\/p>\n His body was watched overnight by first responders.<\/p>\n Map of where Echo Canyon Trail is<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “When setting up and putting a plan in place, we wanted to take a slower approach,” said Phoenix Fire Capt. DJ Lee. “This is a recovery, not a rescue. Changing the game plan for last night to today was a better, safer plan for our crew members.”<\/p>\n Schindler’s body was airlifted off the mountain.<\/p>\n “Being off location, we used a helicopter to hoist the person out,” Capt. Lee said. “It\u2019s way safer and a lot faster to get him out for our crew members.”<\/p>\n Phoenix Police said there is no foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – The hiker whose body was recovered from Camelback Mountain on Tuesday morning has been identified by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-214228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177311867717823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/harald-schindler.jpg\")
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