The thing that impressed me most about visiting GC is that there are miles of canyon with NO fences, signs, or whatever.
Any idiot can walk right up and fall over the side.
God bless America.
Did he have dirt on Hillary?
Livin’ on the Edge,,,,
Darwin Nominee’s top Ten.
or you could just look across at the North Rim and realize that the South Rim probably looks pretty much the same.
I nearly fell in, due to ice.
Who would have thought there would be ice at a trailhead?
Was his body found beside a selfie stick?
I crawled up an ice covered Bright Angel Trail in the dark, 35 years ago when a 2 hour, 9 mile stroll to the phantom ranch turned into a 10 hour stuggle for life against the forces of gravity & Nature.
I’ll admit I was a complete idiot, but even with the pitch black and Ice, at no time was I in any danger of falling to my death.
Of course this was before the “selfie”.
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Don'tcha just hate it when that happens?
I have a healthy respect ( fear) for heights.
So my visit to the Canyon’s edge was from many feet away……
The gift shop actually has a window directly overlooking the edge……that was fine enough for me.
At the North rim you are at about 9,000 feet of altitude, which can affect your balance and judgment.
What was the cause of death? Covid-19?
He’ll never do that again. And why did he do that (get on the edge) in the first (and last) place?
You’ll get that.
Did he have a recent booster shot?
We went to the Louvre Museum in Paris one Summer. It was hot in there! Saw the Mona Lisa from behind a mob of people, and found our way out. Same principle I guess. Must have been on someone’s bucket list?
Almost did that myself. My beer bottle slid away from me and just disappeared over the edge. I held my breath and waited for the crash of glass, when it came about 4 seconds later I gently climbed back to the path. Dumbest thing I ever did.
I once stopped a friend I was camping with from going over a sixty foot high cliff. It was night and there was a full moon. We were drinking and looking at the moon when he raised his arms and kept saying “the moon, the moon...” while walking straight towards the cliff edge. So I ran and grabbed his shirt and arm. He thanked me a lot for saving his life. Later he became a US Marine.
Not an infrequent occurrence
A year from now this story will be on Oxygen, and the wife did it.