Posted on 08/27/2016 5:12:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A worker at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is dead after falling off a cliff, park rangers said.
Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, 21, of Quito, Ecuador, was killed early Friday morning, according to the National Park Service. She was a park concession employee.
The woman was socializing with a group of co-workers at the park’s Grandview Point trail when she fell over the cliff edge into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River, the NPS said.
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Another death by selfie?
Or the heart attack whilst screaming! Nah, 21, too young. Always wondered what I would think facimg a death such as that. You know you have about a 99.999% chance of meeting your maker.
I think if I had worked there when I was a youngster, I would have carried a backpack with all sorts of things to break my fall. Small parachute? Axe to catch the mountain? Whatever.
Socializing = drinking alcohol to excess.
After reading post #3, I'd say the assumption is totally your own.
She is more than cute——quite beautiful.
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“why do you assume that she wasn’t here legally????”
She probably was here legally. But she was not an American. Seems a bit odd that we would need to hire folks from outside the US to work in a National Park, but then, the concession jobs there aren’t exactly fun. Still, they used to have lots of applicants for them.
She was a beauty, and apparently loved by a lot of people. May she rest in peace.
why do you assume that she wasn't here legally????
Why would you assume a 21 year old from Ecuador isn't a foreigner?
I had a girl friend when I was a youngster who was an American. She loved excitement. She went to work on a cattle run in Wyoming somewhere,
People from all over the world love that sort of excitement. But not me...
At the top of a cliff at 03:00 AM...........
What was someone from Ecuador doing working at a National Park? When I was a kid, college students would kill for those jobs. I guess now they are too busy with Pokémon to have a job. No wonder they want the taxpayers to pay for their college level indoctrination and programing.
Stay away from cliffs. People don’t bounce very well.
Just as "fear of flying" is really fear of crashing.
It says she was from Quito, Ecuador? Has America been indulging in Imperialistic Colonization again?
Me, too. Just looking down makes me queazy. Skiing doesn’t. Guess it has to do with control or something.
I quit flying in ‘96 after TWA800 went down. If I can’t drive there, I don’t need to go.
That’s the OTHER Grand Canyon, Sam — aka Grand Canyon of the Colorado River — in Arizona. The fall occurred at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River — in Wyoming.
Have you ever been around cattle? It's not very exciting.
There is something about being stepped on by a cow when you're a little kid. It doesn't hurt because your bare foot mashes unto the cow patties.
Thanks for the correction. But still a long fall from the cliff, is it not?
Congrats!
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