PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 13, 2020
Baxter State Park officials identified the hiker whose body was found last week at the summit of Katahdin as 27-year-old Nathan Leigh Bell of Walkersville, Maryland. He was the second hiker to die on Maine’s highest mountain in two days, prompting park officials to remind hikers that the mountain “is a formidable place, especially as winter approaches.” On Oct. 7, Donald MacGillis, a longtime Boston Globe editor from Pittsfield, Mass., died after he was airlifted from the mountain following a fall. Eight people have died in Baxter State Park in the last 10 years, including the two last week.