Man dies hiking trail on Blue Ridge Parkway known for its “haunting skeletons of ancient trees,” NC park says. Muhammad Sultan was from Columbia, SC, park says.

Man dies hiking trail on Blue Ridge Parkway known for its “haunting skeletons of ancient trees,” NC park says. Muhammad Sultan was from Columbia, SC, park says.

Man dies hiking trail on Blue Ridge Parkway known for its “haunting skeletons of ancient trees,” NC park says. Muhammad Sultan was from Columbia, SC, park says.

Blue Ridge Parkway dispatchers received a report of a park visitor in medical distress within a mile of the Graveyard Fields Overlook Trailhead, according to a July 14 news release from NPS.