The three Wisconsin sisters that went missing during a camping trip in Wyoming have finally resurfaced.
The trio aged between 16 and 25 has been found late Thursday morning 7 miles from the location their car had been parked near a trailhead in northwestern Wyoming’s Gros Ventre Wilderness, said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Lori Iverson.
The sisters, Megan Andrews-Sharer, 25; Erin Andrews-Sharer, 22; and Kelsie Andrews-Sharer, 16 had been spotted by a helicopter crew at about 10 a.m. MT before being collected by them from there.
Iverson said, “They’re tired, cold (and) hungry, but otherwise healthy and happy to be on their way out.”
They had been reported missing Tuesday after they failed to meet their mother in Chicago as scheduled.
“The girls were found by search teams and are in a helicopter on their way back to civilization to reunite with the family. They are OK, we have no other news beyond that for now.” stated a post on a website dedicated to the search.
The sisters had reunited with their father.
The Teton County Sheriff’s Office said that a guide became aware of the search Thursday and gave searchers coordinates of where he saw a person walking Wednesday in an area without any trails. As the helicopter crew found a new focal point, they found the sisters rather quickly.
The details concerning why the trip didn’t end as scheduled or why they had been lost weren’t immediately available. The deputies were told by family members that the sisters had packed food for five days, along with tents and sleeping bags.
Relatives have said that the sisters left Milwaukee around June 28.
The family said they have last heard from the sisters on Saturday, according to a post on the Facebook page of the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay.
“They were supposed to meet their mother in Chicago on Tuesday to board a plane for Switzerland. They did not meet her,” the pastor at the church, Dr. Susan Patterson-Sumwalt, said in an online post to the congregation this week.
The oldest sister, Megan, worked at the church while the other two sisters lived in Ohio.
The sisters had been reported missing Tuesday and authorities located their vehicle Wednesday.
