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rwedgee
Ice climber
CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 27, 2016 - 12:04pm PT
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/27/us/yellowstone-park-worker-falls-off-cliff/index.html
Yellowstone National Park worker falls to death
By Andreas Preuss, CNN
Updated 9:03 AM ET, Sat August 27, 2016 .
Story highlights
Park rangers say the worker was socializing with co-workers when she fell
She was identified as a 21-year-old from Ecuador
(CNN)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.
Rangers say her body was recovered at first light and that the fall was not survivable.
The incident is under investigation.
Yellowstone's Grand Canyon is 800 to 1,200 feet deep, the park's website says, and visitors are urged to be cautious on the area's rim trails.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 27, 2016 - 12:38pm PT
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Thought I was gonna see the same thing in Switzerland a few weeks ago.
Anything for a selfie, eh?
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Aug 27, 2016 - 01:03pm PT
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Great climbers have died in this simple way. They slip on easy ground and die.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Aug 27, 2016 - 04:38pm PT
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I do wonder if it was selfie induced. There is now a list, on line somewhere, of selfie fatalities.
OTOH, Base104 is correct.
Either way, it is tragic.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 27, 2016 - 06:23pm PT
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That is a popular place to fall, was not the first park employee to fall there. A tourist fell from OhhAhh Point in the Grand Canyon recently, just after she snapped a selfie.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Aug 27, 2016 - 07:29pm PT
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3.15AM?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 27, 2016 - 08:37pm PT
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hey there say... this is so awful... :(
my condolences, to her family and loved ones...
:(
they hoped for her to come home, and now--she never will...
:(
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Aug 28, 2016 - 08:51am PT
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Lots of ways to get the chop in Yellowstone, a slip/fall on loose chossy rock not being exclusive. From the mundane auto wrecks & drownings (Yellowstone Lake has a water temp in the low to mid 40's farenheight in summer), to the more exotic: gored by a bison, killed by a Grizzly, eating water hemlock (mistaken for water parsnip), falling into a pool of boiling water, etc. RIP to the victim & condolences to the family & friends.
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