Scott Walsh went missing at Grand Canyon National Park in 2015. Now, a search for a different missing man has also resulted in the discovery of Walsh's remains.
Walsh was last seen stepping off of a shuttle bus at the park's South Rim in 2015. The search for Gabor Berczi-Tomscanyi, a Hungarian national who lived in Hong Kong, resulted in crews finding Walsh's body.
According to Joelle Baird, a park spokeswoman, his body was positioned in a way that made it almost undetectable, as his clothing had blended in with the surroundings, ABC News reported.
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Baird went on to say that this is not something new for search crews when looking for missing people.
"It happens every once in a while here during searches that we end up finding people we weren't expecting," she said Wednesday to ABC.
Berczi-Tomscanyi was reported missing to police in Las Vegas in late July while he was traveling in the Southwest United States.
It was reported that his car was found in a Grand Canyon parking lot in mid-August, and his body was found a few days later, almost 430 feet below the canyon's rim at Yavapai Point.
It was determined that Berczi-Tomscanyi died from a traumatic fall, but police are still investigating what happened up until the fall.
During an aerial search for Berczi-Tomscanyi, Walsh's body was discovered about 600 feet below the Pipe Creek overlook; this was about 3 miles from where Walsh's day pack was found in 2015, ABC reported.
"The fact that he was found was just coincidental," she said. "We weren't necessarily looking for him, and he wasn't a person that was really on our radar."
Walsh was 56 years old, and park officials believe it was him because the jacket on the body had a license with his name on it from Brooklyn, New York.
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Baird shared that the park officials have not located his immediate family, but they have spoken with his friends.
The Coconino County medical examiner's office will confirm the body's identity after examining the skeletal remains, although DNA testing may be required, Trish Lees, a county spokeswoman, said.
The Grand Canyon still has eight people listed missing or last seen there over the past decade, Baird said.
