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The puzzling disappearance of Matthew Greene from the Ansel Adams Wilderness
Matthew Green disappeared July 17, 2013, Ansel Adams Wilderness, California.
Revised July 2024
Matthew Greene, 39, arrived in the area of the Eastern Sierra Mountains on June 27, 2013, to climb with friends. Still, when his Subaru blew a head gasket, they continued their trip back to Colorado whilst he stayed behind at a campground near Mammoth Lakes called Shady Rest to wait for repairs. Greene planned to drive to Colorado to join the others for more climbing as soon as his car was ready. But Matthew vanished and was never seen again.
What happened? Did he succumb to the metavolcanic rock on the Ritter Range and the Minarets? At the campsite, the authorities found some of his gear missing and a guidebook with pages torn out of it. In the book, “High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails”, chapter 12 “The Minarets and June Lake” was torn out. An exhaustive search of the Ansel Adams Wilderness failed to find any sign of Matt, and he remains missing.
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