Woman Dies After Falling Into Yellowstone's Grand Canyon
LatestA 21 year old woman who worked concessions at Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon tumbled to her death early Friday morning.
Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, from Quito, Ecuador, was socializing with some co-workers along Yellowstone National Park’s Grandview Point trail around 3:15 a.m. when she fell over the cliff edge, the Casper Star-Tribune reports.
Her friends immediately called 911, but authorities said the fall was not survivable. A search and rescue crew spotted her body at first light and retrieved it with a helicopter. Yellowstone officials are continuing to investigate.
The summer has been especially deadly around the park. In June, an Oregon man died after falling into a hot spring, and earlier that same month, a 13 year old boy was burned by a different spring after he, too, fell in.
At a different Grand Canyon several states away, Yelp executive Colleen Burns fell 400 feet to her death in July, having slipped while attempting to maneuver around a group of tourists.