44-year-old man dies after falling 200 feet off rim at Grand Canyon

ktla ^ | 08/28/2022 | Ryan Bittan,

[ELS]

Any idiot can walk right up and fall over the side.

Natural selection.

[Hot Tabasco]

This is usually about when the bad stuff happens.

I can guarandamntee you those aren't my feet. In fact, I probably wouldn't even be in yelling distance of that edge.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Sad, RIP.

[Varda]

I guess I wouldn’t see the GC as a place to commit suicide. It’d be death by a thousand bumps.

[beaversmom]

I’ve never been to the GC but I’ve been to the Canyonlands in Utah. My three young kids with me the first time I was there. I didn’t mess around with them. We kept good distances. But even if they weren’t there, there would have been no getting too close.

[Labyrinthos]

Another one bites the dust: https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/hiker-dies-in-fifth-grand-canyon-death-this-year/

The desert is unforgiving.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Hiking in 100 degree plus temps is usually not a good idea. Especially so if you are 59 years old.

I had one harrowing call on a south-facing hill in 90+ temps. Ran out of water, no shade, blazing hot sun. Scared me to death. That was the end of high-temp hikes for me.