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"“She ended up freezing to death out there” Lenz said, ... “She succumbed to hypothermia and collapsed face down in the snow. She ended up freezing to death out there by herself.”"

Mark Lenz has the rest of his life to wonder what might have been, to ponder a crash that claimed the lives of his former wife and daughter, though they both survived the crash itself.

Trista Meyer perished in the Utah mountains with her daughter, Shyann Lenz. Photo courtesy Mark Lenz.

The medical examiner told Lenz that his daughter, Shyann, 9, may well have survived as long as five days before succumbing to hypothermia in the Pavant Range, just 11 miles east of Fillmore, Utah. Shyann’s tracks covered the area where a Piper Archer crashed 11 miles from the airport on Nov. 26, 2012, minutes after a fuel stop on the way to Gillette, Wyoming.

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