A New York woman who was hiking in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains in NH was found dead Monday, the Concord Monitor reports.
Kate Matrosova, 32, of New York City, had set out early Sunday morning with the plan to hike several peaks, the newspaper said. Matrosova, described as an experienced hiker, appears to have died of exposure due to extreme low temperatures, officials with the state Department of Fish and Game told the Concord Monitor.
A party began to search Sunday afternoon when they received a signal from a personal locator beacon, but the search was called off due to the treacherous weather. Matrosovo was found the next day.
Officials told the newspaper it wasn’t uncommon for people to hike those mountains in the winter, but said Sunday’s weather, which saw 100 mph winds on nearby Mount Washington, was too extreme to hike safely.
“There were high wind speeds and sub-zero temperatures,” Lt. Wayne Saunders of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department told the newspaper. “You shouldn’t be hiking in this weather.”