The 33-year-old plummeted from the edge of the canyon's "Sky Walk" attraction — a walkway that extends out over the chasm and allows tourists to look down to its bottom.
The unidentified man fell over 4,000 ft, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said.
It's not easy to fall off that accidentally.
ReplyDeletecameras everywhere but we need an investigation.
ReplyDelete'Climbs over a four foot railing and falls'.
DeleteLawsuit to be filed holding something or someone responsible.
DeleteAdd these to the morons who think Elk & Buffalo are Disney characters.
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"technical rope rescue team"
ReplyDeleteYou're gonna need a lot of rope.
This is why we can't nice things.
ReplyDeleteThere's about 7 deaths a year in the Grand Canyon. It's loose gravel, and things can happen fast. There's a river that runs through Phoenix, lose about 7 a year there too in just a foot of water. Slippery rock, strong current, and that's all she wrote.
ReplyDeleteYou talking about the Salt or the Gila?
DeleteSalt River
DeleteBetween kayakers, tubers, and waders who lose their footing, it adds up to about 7 drownings per year, i.e.,
https://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Accident/summarize/state/AZ
Wonder what he knew about the Clintons...
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It is fairly common for people to fall off the edge of the canyon but the sky bridge is a different matter.
ReplyDeleteThis glass is so clear. It is as if I could touch the bottom.
ReplyDeleteThe drop is actually 500-800 feet. It's at an elevation above seal level of 4770 feet. These are different things. Once again, our education system has failed us.
ReplyDeleteHeight != altitude.
DeleteBeen there. It's over priced and over rated. Unless you're intending to make a big splash give it a miss.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the first free fall calculator I found it took 15.77 seconds to fall that distance and was going 507 ft/sec. Let's see doing a little bit on the calculator that gets you 345 mph. If it doesn't factor in terminal velocity, that means he watched the ground come towards him even longer.
ReplyDeleteThe human body generally stabilizes at 120 mph in freefall in a random posture. Still, the dude had a Wiley Coyote few moments. That's all, folks. 345 mph would be for a body in freefall in a vacuum.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/SwYN7mTi6HM
ReplyDeleteNice.
DeleteYou can't free fall on earth and reach a speed of 345 mph. If you point your head down like in a dive, maybe you'll get to 175 mph or so and just falling your terminal velocity is about 125 mph.
ReplyDeleteNot in the National Park, but nearby on the River within the Reservation.
ReplyDeleteIt ain't the fall that kills you...
ReplyDeleteIt's not the fall, it's the sudden stop that gets you.
ReplyDeleteDid he die?
ReplyDeleteIt would’ve been really cool if they couldn’t find the body.
DeleteJFM
Nah, he got up and said ta dah....
DeleteHe was on a piece of the railing, and he stepped off just before it smashed into the ground.
DeleteI'll never worry about falling off that thing cuz I'll never be on it.
ReplyDeleteVery strange. I was in on the original design and build of this monstrosity piece of crap and the balustrade stands at 48" tall. While it would be possible to climb over it = not easy. Could someone be "pushed over" maybe but they'd have to heave and lift the bugger over the 4' tall guardfence also made of glass.
ReplyDeleteWe spent our childhoods watching the certified genius Wile. E. Coyote fall to a hilarious splat only for some Dumbass do it for real. Hope his coffin was from ACME.
ReplyDeleteStefan v.