Canyoning can be treacherous. There are risks associated with scrambling down uneven, slippery surfaces and abseiling in wet, cold conditions. Several fatalities have occurred in this sport as a result of flash flooding, the most infamous of which happened when a group of tourists on a commercial canyoning adventure trip were drowned in Switzerland in 1999.
which happened when a group of tourists on a commercial canyoning adventure trip were drowned in Switzerland in 1999. That happened 3 days AFTER she did it at the SAME place she did it.
An honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill put on a wet suit, a helmet, and, with NO ROPE, jumped into a "creek" plummeting down the side of a ROCK mountain. Like a luger.
What COULD she have been thinking?