I’ve walked the Grand Canyon Trails to the river and back. They are all unforgiving.
Sorry for the family’s loss. Selfie?
14 years old, breaks my heart. I guess public schools teach everything except what is important. Remember “Tiny Tim?” He once responded to what was important, saying this: teach children the ten commandments.”
"...700-foot fall..."
14 and dead - how sad
Poor little kid missed her chance at life, and probably at a very happy moment. How horrifying.
You get too close to the edge...you may fall. You fall there, you die.
Now the Libs will try to ban gravity as being a danger to life on the planet.
Where i drive in New Jersey, I could close my eyes and I would just bounce down the highway like a pinball in a machine. There is nothing to hit that is not guarded or padded.
But out west, you can drive or step off a cliff without so much as a handrail. It is important to make the mental adjustment.
Very sad. RIP.
A few years ago I was at Grand Canyon at one of the overlook points. A young girl was trying to do a selfie. She kept backing up to the edge of the cliff. It was obvious she did not know how close she was. It was several hundred feet down. I walked over and grabbed her arm firmly and literally jerked her back from the cliff edge. I then pointed to the cliff.
I could not communicate with her as she was Chinese. She was a pretty little girl doing stupid things. As mentioned, I could not communicate to her after I pulled her back. She did not object to my actions. She was about three feet from death and still walking backwards.
Have they blamed the Schumer Shutdown yet?
I was there a couple of years ago. Not surprised to hear of a death, people were way too close to the edge. I have been to the Grand Canyon a few times in the winter. Snow and ice were no deterrent to people climbing over railings, etc.
Not in the Grand Canyon, Horseshoe Bend is in the gorge between Lee’s Ferry and the Glen Canyon dam. This is a world class trout fishery. My first visit there was two years ago this month, and my buddy’s jet sucked up a bunch of weeds causing us to beach on the inside of the curve where he had to get in the water to clear the pump.
A professional guide named Skip had warned us earlier that getting into the water was “an over rated experience”, and my friend learned he wasn’t lying! Right after that as a storm moved in, the wind came up fierce as can be. Huge waves with white caps were coming over the bow of this little speed boat as we headed back to the ramp and the pump couldn’t get us up to planing speed.
It was extremely dangerous as the boat kept taking on water and the waves were soaking us. Had we capsized, we would probably have been the victims of hypothermia and possibly perished.
Things change fast in water, and on the edge of 700 foot cliffs.
This is just heartbreaking. Thee accidents are such needless and senseless losses. It’s also the second recent death. There was a Greek tourist about 15 years ago but two of late.
They start the stupid adventure seekers young in CA.
It is really sad in that if you went over, you definitely have enough time to think, "This is gunna hurt."
