The body of William Davis, a man from Jacksonville, was found on Friday after he went missing from the summit of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Search teams discovered Davis\u2019s body 400 feet off Lion Head Trail after three days of searching in challenging weather conditions, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n The search for Davis began after he wandered away from the summit of Mt. Washington on Wednesday afternoon, the release said.<\/p>\n Despite extensive efforts on the western side of the summit, no clues were found until Friday, when searchers focused on the east and south slopes.<\/p>\n Officials said weather conditions had worsened, with high winds, clouds, rain, and low temperatures, complicating the search efforts.<\/p>\n A volunteer search team located Davis\u2019s body at approximately 11:00 a.m. Friday, the release said.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n An Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter, which was on a training mission, assisted in the recovery of Davis\u2019s body.<\/p>\n The helicopter faced heavy winds and cloud cover but managed to land and remove the body during a brief window of opportunity.<\/p>\n Officials said preliminary observations suggest that Davis suffered a \u201csignificant fall\u201d from a steep, rocky slope.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n His body was transported to the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n Davis was not a hiker and had no map, and it remains unclear how he ended up at the location where he was found, officials said.<\/p>\n The Fish and Game Department expressed gratitude to the volunteers and staff who participated in the search.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of William Davis, a man from Jacksonville, was found on Friday after he went missing from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,3188,723,51145,7324,7310,7327,51146,51142,51143,51144,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,51141,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-74001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-man-missing-in-new-hampshire","14":"tag-fox30","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-jacksonville-fl","17":"tag-jacksonville-man-missing-on-mount-washington","18":"tag-man-missing-mount-washington","19":"tag-mount-washington-new-hampshire","20":"tag-new-hampshire-fish-and-game-department","21":"tag-northeast-florida","22":"tag-southeast-georgia","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-wfox","30":"tag-william-davis","31":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001","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=74001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}