Arizona State student vanishes during Grand Canyon trip just days before graduation, family pleads for help

The household of a missing Arizona State pupil is pleading for assistance aft helium vanished during a Grand Canyon travel conscionable days earlier graduation.

Sandarsh Krishna, 26, was past heard from connected April 27, erstwhile helium told relatives helium was traveling to Las Vegas with a halt astatine the South Rim. He was expected backmost successful clip for last exams and a occupation interview, but ne'er returned.

"We haven’t had immoderate occurrence successful uncovering him," his sister-in-law, Pooja Shivananjappa, told Fox 10 Phoenix.

According to the National Park Service, Krishna’s past known determination was on the Rim Trail disconnected Hermit Road, betwixt Bright Angel Lodge and Mohave Point, sometime betwixt 4 p.m. connected April 27 and 12 a.m. connected April 28.

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Sandarsh Krishna, 26, an Arizona State University student, was reported missing aft visiting the Grand Canyon. He was past heard from connected April 27. (Grand Canyon National Park)

Investigators accidental Krishna, who had nary known vehicle, whitethorn person been utilizing a rideshare oregon taxi service. His compartment telephone information has not moved since the time helium disappeared, according to his family.

"They’re doing the champion they can, but unluckily we bash not person the nonstop determination to spot wherever helium went missing," Shivananjappa told the outlet.

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Search and rescue teams are utilizing crushed crews, enactment operations and aerial enactment to hunt for missing ASU pupil Sandarsh Krishna. (Grand Canyon National Park)

Search efforts person ramped up crossed the South Rim, with much than 30 hunt and rescue unit deployed implicit respective days.

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Search crews proceed to comb distant and hazardous areas of the canyon arsenic the probe into Krishna’s disappearance remains ongoing. (Grand Canyon National Park)

Crews are besides utilizing aggregate techniques successful the rugged terrain, including rim way scanning, walk-down routes into the canyon, method enactment insertions, aerial reconnaissance flights and drone operations, parkland officials said.

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Crews are deploying method enactment insertions and aerial reconnaissance arsenic portion of the ongoing hunt astatine the Grand Canyon. (Grand Canyon National Park)

Rangers are continuing to absorption connected the country on Hermit Road and surrounding sections of the rim arsenic the hunt remains ongoing.

Officials accidental Krishna was past seen wearing diversion covering and is described arsenic 5 feet 10 inches gangly with a bladed build, weighing astir 160 pounds, with achromatic hairsbreadth and brownish eyes.

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Sandarsh Krishna, an ASU postgraduate student, was past heard from April 27 during a travel to the Grand Canyon. His household says helium was days distant from graduation. (Grand Canyon National Park)

Investigators besides accidental Krishna was believed to beryllium carrying a achromatic backpack earlier helium disappeared. That backpack was aboriginal turned successful to edifice unit astatine Bright Angel Lodge aboriginal connected April 28.

Rangers are present moving to place and talk with the idiosyncratic who turned successful the backpack, saying the idiosyncratic whitethorn person accusation that could assistance constrictive the hunt area. Authorities emphasized the idiosyncratic is not considered a suspect.

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Authorities are seeking to place this individual, who returned a backpack believed to beryllium to Sandarsh Krishna. Officials accidental the idiosyncratic is not a fishy but whitethorn person accusation applicable to the investigation. (Grand Canyon National Park)

His household says they person besides hired a backstage researcher arsenic the hunt continues.

Krishna moved to Arizona from India successful 2024 to prosecute a master’s grade successful machine subject astatine ASU and was acceptable to postgraduate May 9, the household told Fox 10 Phoenix. Loved ones picture him arsenic bright, benignant and profoundly connected to his family.

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"It’s intolerable to not similar him," Shivananjappa said. "He has a helping hand… helium has the bosom of a kid."

Anyone who whitethorn person seen Krishna oregon has accusation astir his whereabouts betwixt April 27 and April 28 is urged to interaction the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch extremity enactment astatine 888-653-0009.