Posted on 03/18/2014 2:38:43 PM PDT by kcvl
John N. Anderson, of Grapevine, fell off the rim near El Tovar Lodge while visiting Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday morning, authorities have said.
Rangers were able to locate the 53-year-old and began CPR but said efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.
The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Centre received a report of a man falling off the rim at about 8am Saturday.
An investigation into the incident is being conducted by the National Park Service and the Coconino County Medical Examiner.
He also had his own agency in Bedford, and according to its biography, he was a graduate of Purdue University.
According to reports, there have been some 685 deaths recorded so far at the Grand Canyon.
In March 2012, newlywed Ioana Hociota, 24, was just 80 miles short of becoming the youngest person in history to hike the Grand Canyon from end to end when she fell 300ft to her death.
It was believed at the time that a loose rock may have caused the fall.
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A fall like intentional or stupid enough to stand on the edge of a cliff.
Hmmm...
Won't help
350’
32 ft/sec^2
terminal velocity 150 ft/sec or about 102 mi./hr
not too many people fall into grand canyon and die. far more die of cancer or pneumonia.
Watch out for that first step...it’s a lu lu!
This man’s act was a real hit on the Grand Canyon circuit.
not too many people fall into grand canyon and die. far more die of cancer or pneumonia.
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Bathtubs are the big number killer every year. Which is why the French avoid them.
Your stat above may be correct, but of those few who do take that big first step in the Grand Canyon, it’s almost always the end of things.
Read this in another article and it makes no sense whatsoever:
But park officials say he was alone Saturday morning near the El Tovar Lodge when he fell about 350 feet from a rim near the lodge.
“He wasn’t trying to shoot a photograph or anything like that,” his sister-in-law Suzy Naughalty said Tuesday by telephone. “It was just a freakish accident.”
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/03/18/5659244/grapevine-man-was-alone-when-he.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
my point was i was saying it was a unique death. comapred’to the way most’people go.
“Grapevine man was alone when he fell from Grand Canyon rim”
I just finished reading a book that chronicaled all the known deaths in the Grand Canyon. Lots of ways to die out there. People falling off the edge was probably the most interesting chapter to me.
I learned that the 2 highest risk factors for people on foot in the park is hiking alone and going off trail. Oddly, middle-aged men tend to do these things more often than any other age/gender group.
Time for this...go to site to listen...
http://mp3juices.com/search/grand-canyon-suite
Compliments of Grofe
It seems to for you.
When I visited the Grand Canyon, I was shocked (and favorably impressed) in this era so much fear and panic and safety nannyism, that there were miles and miles of canyonside where anybody can walk up and just fall in.
I expected it to be fenced, guard railed, laser alarmed etc. They actually expect people to use common sense....very impressive.
Since he was from Texas, I figured he was an Aggie.
Like Hank Hill.
It must have been a great view on the way down. Was it worth it, Tex?
That would be a lot of guard rails. It is 277 miles long. And just in the most popular tourist areas, because it has an irregular shape, you are still looking at miles of rails.
It is pretty funny when somebody visits it for the first time, because it’s about a six hour trip from Phoenix, so by the time they get there, they are kind of stiff and fatigued, and in a “it’s just a canyon” attitude.
And then they see it. If you stand behind them, you can sometimes see their legs shake.
And if you really want to see people lose it, go with them on the The Hualapai Tribe Skywalk, where you stand on clear glass and look at a between 500 and 800 foot drop straight down.
Last night on BATES MOTEL Norma Bates explained that people who usually fall into the Grand Canyon are those who say “Look, honey. Take my picture while I pretend I’m falling. Ahhhhhh!”
El Tovar is in the heart of the South Rim Park, lots of rails - families with kids and such need rails. Almost anything not in a heavily touristed area will not have rails. The guy may well have climbed over the rail to get a picture.
We 4-whelled it about 75 miles down to Toroweep in northern AZ to the edge of the canyon. No fences...no nothing...except for a 3500 foot drop. Cool.
It didn’t hit me that way. Back in the day I saw first the North Rim. I sat in wonderment for hours watching the colors change as the sun set. Twenty years ago the family went and mrs_dweller had a reaction like you describe, she couldn’t stand at the rail and look, she had to back off a few feet to keep from swooning
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