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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Chelsea Ritschel

Woman shares ‘astonishing’ story of strangers who recovered last photos of her father after he fell hiking

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A woman has shared the incredible way she was reunited with the last photos of her father after he fell to his death while they were hiking in the Olympic Mountains.

Jen Rose Smith, a writer living in Vermont, recounted the emotional story in a Twitter thread posted this week. In it, she shared a photo of her father and herself taken the day before he died, and revealed that three strangers saved the photo from “being lost forever”.

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