Boo-kay!
Well at least it keeps the food and fuel costs down at the commissary.
I have this book, and may eventually read it. There is also an updated edition that came out in 2014.
It opens with the story of the man who jumped into a hot spring after his dog.
I’ve also heard that when the settlers passed through in their covered wagons and discovered the geysers, they would throw rocks, broken wagon wheels, etc. down them and watch them fly out when the geysers erupted. :smack: More than one person died this way, and that may indeed be addressed in the above book. :rolleyes:
That’s the same incident.
:Sniff:
A professional barbarian would know this. 
I recently purchased and read that book. It was a pretty good read. Like the deaths from environmental hazards more than the ones that happened due to other humans (apparently, there have been a lot of bar fights in the area that ended badly for someone).
From the link, it appears there is a whole genre of such books I had never been aware of - basically, ‘people dying in national parks’. I must admit, I’d be interested in reading some of those!
I’ve read it – it’s well worth the read, at least in my opinion. I’d read it again if I knew where it was!
In at least one of the gift shops at the Grand Canyon you can buy a book about the many people who have fallen to their death in the Canyon. When we were there one March it was extremely windy and I saw a tottery old couple climbing down a stairway with no railings whatsoever. I could not watch.
As I’ve said before, I spent about 6 months flying air tours to/through the Grand Canyon. One of the “perks” was a couple free (=unpaid) hours midday at the canyon airport. But we could ride the bus down to the rim and lodges at no cost. Which was a real perk.
From the number of tourists I saw go beyond the railings at places with crumbling edges it’s a total mystery to me why the whole darn canyon isn’t full half with rotting tourist carcasses.
I exaggerate slightly as I never saw anyone go over the edge. But it sure wasn’t something I’d be willing to do.
Did you ever think the Park Service might have needed a witness?
Damn. I checked the date of the article, but missed the date in the body of it. :smack:
The newer article says his sister was taking cell phone video of him when he fell in, but they haven’t released it. How horrible.
I guess “Hey y’all! Watch this!!” has been replaced by “Hey y’all! Record this!!”
Soon to be replaced by that facebook live streaming thingy: “Hey y’all! Stream this live!!”.
If somebody could figure out how to filter the firehose streaming feed into a Darwin Award channel I bet they could make serious money off the ad revenue. Disgusting, but true.
I found this redacted official report on the incident, which may be of interest:
https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/YELL_Scott_Fatality_IncidentReport_NP16070606.pdf
I hope it was at least a nice phone. About 35 years ago I saw some teenager doing the exact same thing for one of those metal camping cups. Nobody implored him to stop; they were all just shaking their heads and mumbling under their breath. I have an almost nonexistent fear of heights as long as I know I’m safe, but I had those damned cables in a death grip the entire way down.
Just to change the subject a bit, I’ve noticed that almost everybody I’ve ever talked to about climbing Half Dome and reported fear said that it was going down that freaked them out. They had no problems at all going up, but they were pooping their tighty-whities on the way down. Why is that?
And by the way, is that footage you were talking about on YouTube by any chance? I’d love to see it.
One must give credit to the NPS for redacting the report, then using a scanned copy of the redacted report for the FOIA request. All too often someone just redacts an existing PDF and makes it available. It’s then real easy to reverse-engineer the redactions and view was was supposed to be hidden. Don’t ask me how I know this.
why is this news now? I saw it on the front page of CNN, but it happened several months ago and made news then. Just odd that it somehow got bubbled to the top of some editor’s list of interesting enough. Sure as hell isn’t current.
If you’re feeling adventurous, Rotten.com has a page about a similar incident titled “Simmer”.
So, why didn’t YOU holler at him?