A History of Falls Into The Grand Canyon | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2021
- "On the 26th of February 1919, The Grand Canyon in Arizona officially became the 15th National Park of the United States of America..."
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"more than 50 falls in the park's existence"
is anybody else surprised by how relatively-low that number is? i would have expected way more people
Give it a chance !
Have you looked at people latley !!
No brains at all !!!!!!!
Wish more congress members would visit !!!
@@Savant218 Lol
I bet there been 1000 close calls
@@Savant218 🤣 good one !!
Golden Gate: "those are rookie numbers"
I remember my dad wanted to prove to my mom that the Grand Canyon was safe when we went there so he asked a tour guide “how long has it been since someone fell in” expecting them to say something like a year. Instead they replied something like “oh someone just fell in 2 weeks ago”
Dads want to prove canyons are safe.
_oh, I just lost two hikers this morning. they were taking pics at the rim, lost balance and slipped into the void. happens on a regular basis, you know. I got used to it. however, mind that trail here, it's fairly slippery and the edge is just two feet away and nothing to grab on!_
The next day after my friends and I went to the Grand Canyon, someone fell in. If we went that day like we originally planned to do we could have witnessed it...
There are some things you shouldn't get used to.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 With certain occupations, you have too. Otherwise you might as well quit and look for a different job...
Tourist: "How often do people fall off here?"
Guide: "Only once."
That's some black comedy right there and it's amazing.
Oooooh I gotta use this one! I’m a guide in the scariest parts of canyonlands national park and get this question all the time.
"Oh that means it's safe ! I am going to do a handstand near the edge for a cool tinder photo"
@@adamgreenhaus4691 yea yea dr phil
In the Goosebump book “Horrorland” there’s literally this exact exchange, just substitute “fall off” with “die”
I lived in Arizona for many years and spent a lot of time in the Canyon, including a back packing trip for 35 days. The Canyon, for the most part, is very safe. HOWEVER it is critical you understand dangers, Stay on trails, avoid showing off and carry more water than you can imagine needing. If you use your brain and common sense, it is the most wonderful and magical place on earth.
Would you recommend a golden retriever puppy doing the hike 39 days with a parachute attached?
None the less fortunate enough for the apple sauce in the spoodle taste
@@elkedge haha, only if he can carry his own food. I had a golden that I took hiking in the canyon and was cited. NO DOGS IN THE CANYON.
Meh, I fall into the Grand Canyon at least once a week. Really not a big deal
Moral of the story:
Don't fuck around at the grand canyon
Actually, just don't be stupid around high places.
Accually, just don't be stupid in general
Akshually, just don't be.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 actually, just don't
@@youcanpunchmeintheface actually
"Dad, I'm hungry"
"Hi hungry, I'm falling off a fucking canyon."
So you just learn the “Hi I’m...”; “Hi [same word]” joke? Good for you!
@@martinc.720 So you are going from comment to comment arguing with people for zero reason... good for you. (In all seriousness, just cause you are unhappy, it wont make you happier to shit on random people lol)
@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 yeah I noticed that as well. Who goes on RUclips just to argue?
@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 Except I don’t go from comment to comment to argue. Thanks for making assumptions about strangers though.
You’re welcome!
I was at a party in high school one time. The host's parents were out of town. Suddenly we were told by the host girl's friend that we all had to leave. No one knew why exactly but there were whispers that something happened to her parents. We found out later her parents had been visiting the Grand Canyon and her mother somehow slipped and fell to her death. Yikes.
My wife and I visited a couple of years ago and it was beyond breathtaking. Words, pictures, and movies honestly cannot describe what an incredible sight it is.
In saying that we had a close encounter: one night we went for a walk up the path behind the hotel which was right at the edge of the canyon. There was a small brick wall - maybe knee height - running up the path. So we were playing and having a laugh playing and walking on the wall. It was absolute darkness so we couldn't see the other side. Now we thought the wall was there followed by a few meters of land until the cliff.
The next morning, we went back out on the path and we get to the point where we were playing on the wall. And it turns out, there was absolutely nothing on the other side of that wall, just a sheer drop into the canyon.
lol yikes
The sinking feeling I felt when I read just sheer drop into the canyon. That is a terrifying thought, a fun moment with you and your wife turned nightmare with one wrong step.
I’ve been to the canyon twice. I didn’t get anywhere near the edge. These tragedies made me find the vertigo again. Poor souls.
That is so scary!
thats effed up how can there not be any safety warning wow thats messed up
Worst practical joke ever. "Hey sweetie want to see something traumatizing?" Jumps to death.
Sounds like the trollge.
💚
His joke didn't land, so didn't he.
Ba dum *crack!*
Actually pretty good.
“His joke didn’t land” Oh it landed somewhere. Just not where he expected it to...
ba dum tsss
Lmfaooo
I can land anywhere once.....
Is that Garfield as your pic
Funny
One other factor that causes people to fall in is the wind. It gusts unexpectedly when people go to the edge of the canyon and just blows them off. I worked in nearby Flagstaff Medical Center as a nurse. People were always getting injured or dying in the canyon.
I swear one day someone is going to make a horror game or movie surrounding the Grand Canyon with some supernatural power in it that compels people to walk over to the edge to wait for their demise.
The game will be called: Darwinism. People will be said to have The Darwinism strong in them.
It’s called the call of the void. Those are the really stupid intrusive thoughts we all have.
What if I veered the car to the left.
What if I took a step forward.
What if…
You would never do it, but the thought can haunt you for years.
@@ArDeeMeefacts
@@bobbys4327Imagine if it was a parasite that needs to kill its human host to move onto the next stage of their lifecycle
@@ArDeeMeeAn intrusive thought would be more of a demand
And then there’s me, who doesn’t even trust the guardrails and thinks they will somehow disappear and I will fall in. Guess that’s a fear of heights to another level!
This is me too lol. I will approach a railing and look over, but I will never adjust my balance to depend or lean on a railing in any way!
SAME i cant even stand near the guardrails of my balcony without getting sweaty palms
That's the kind of mindset that will keep you alive.
That’s just survival instincts baby
So me. Not going near the rails. Just the pictures freak me out.
And don't forget: only *20* people have ever been boiled alive at Yellowstone National Park!
_Together, we can change that!_
this list is incomplete *you can help by expanding it*
What the actual fuck? That's messed up man. I would never say something like, "that dude that fell in the boiling sewer in new york during a brawl was just practicing for his yellowstone swim but he didn't quite make it". Glad I'm civil and not fucked up enough to ever dare say such a thing.
@@davidmoak1219 what
@@davidmoak1219 yeah actually wat
@@dguy0386 that's the joke. It sounds hopeful, but it isn't. They aren't going to be unboiled, only joined.
When my wife and I were there last year. A girl tripped twice walking backwards trying to get in view of her friends camera. My wife turned to me and said “let’s get out of here. I won’t be able to handle the screams if she falls.”
Likely wouldn’t scream almost no one does when they fall/jump I witnessed a couple put it that way you don’t even have the opportunity to scream when you’re stunned like that.
@@jordanalandry1866The people left behind scream!
@@billpugh58Good point! The person falling would most likely be in too much shock to scream in that moment. But I imagine their family/friends witnessing them fall would let out the most harrowing and gut-wrenching screams you've ever heard. I don't know how I'd react if I witnessed something so traumatic. Especially if the person falling was someone I know.
My dad went beyond the safety railings once or twice when we visited about a decade ago to get a better view. We were just starting a month-long trip up the West Coast, and all I could imagine was watching him fall to his death, and the rest of us literally having to keep going on our trip without him. It was very stressful. :P
People believe it can't/won't happen to them, but it CAN AND MIGHT. I wish people would just stay where they know it's safe.
and you allowed that? i would order him right back or the vacation is terminated.
@@BlondeQtieYou can lead a horse to water…
Your dad is an idiot. I'm sorry he doesn't value your life and safety.
But danger is fun🙃
My sister in law came very close to falling in off the path at the South Rim about 10 years ago. We were hiking down and others were hiking up, we shifted over and she rolled her ankle, lost her balance, and started to fall down a steep embankment. An older gentleman walking up leaped to grab her and caught her ankle. His heroic action and a small V-shaped branch saved her life. We screamed from behind her as we watched in horror, loud enough for it to echo throughout the canyon and all the hiking traffic stopped... all the horses stopped. We clambered to pull her and the gentleman back onto the path. They both were in shock over what had just happened. It didn’t actually hit her until later in the day what happened. We had planned to hike for a couple more hours, but decided not to push our luck and hiked back to our car. I think about that man often and hope that karma has been gracious to him.
Wow! 🤨
He’s a hero, God bless him 🙏🏼
The planet doesn't reward anything. You are just more likely to get something if you go for it without considering other people.
Not saying that that's the right way but if you are just a people pleaser without going for what you want, planet Earth will not just magically give it to you. Life is not the Cinderella story.
That’s incredible. In winter of 2017 my friend and I visited the south rim. We took some pictures from a distance and really appreciated all the lives lost there. It was icy, the southern rim is all that was opened due to conditions. No place to horse around.
@@SchennyoOoO - Life is a savage struggle , and victory has nothing to do with justice.
I wouldn’t do it myself, but if I were to sit on the edge of the Grand Canyon I wouldn’t stand up to get back on the rock, I’d just crawl until I got to sure ground. Why doesn’t anyone do that?
I remeber one time I was at a sand pit near my grandfathers house, there were these large hills about 15 feet high and to me when I was a kid it was just fun climbing around on them. There was this one time where I was doing this I slipped and almost fell down, I couldn't climb back up the slight incline. I wouldn't have gotten hurt if I had actually fallen but I was terrified. I can't imagine walking anywhere close to the edge of the grand canyon. makes me shudder just to think about it.
Yeah, I do that when sitting on an edge that's 2 meters off the ground, some people seem to have no impuls for self preservation.
The grand canyon is sketchy af. I've been there once, and had no idea how people were comfortable sitting at a 1000 foot ledge. You might as well dangle off a skyscraper balcony too.
If i wanted to sit on the edge I'd have to crawl out as well as back
I think the same way! I've done that many times while on cliffs, etc. I sit and then scoot backwards about 10 feet
In a mountain close to where I live, a girl's parents fell when walking backwards following her instructions, as to fit in the picture she was taking. It's one of the most haunting things someone can live with...
Who inherited?
I get anxious calling people over because if something happens to them it is my fault and I can't live with that let alone this...
I really hope the girl is doing at least okay
@@Assia131 Listen: just think that, if something were to happen, they would accept the deal. Not because coming over is worth dying for, but because if the way of living life that makes you see your friends and spend time with the people you want is the same that cuts it short, so be it.
If someone dies coming to you, the fault is not yours. It's their fault for going places and coming to see you. And damn it IS a worth trade
You should reach the end of the road covered in bruises! And tattoos maybe, why not
@@NewplayerXL can't help it, I always go over to them instead, I feel much comfortable that way 😓 thank you tho
How old was the girl ?
Having been there myself, the sense of vertigo is insane as you stare out over it.... Whenever i stood up from sitting, even if i wasnt very close to the edge, I always took stock of my surroundings and scooted backwards so that I had a large amount of solid ground around me, then stood. Its a beautiful place, but terrifying...
Top reasons for death in the grand canyon
1. Crossed the railing
2. Crossed the railing
3. Crossed the railing
So... stupidity
You left out The Call of The Void
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 ah that explains everything
Interesting there are a lot of places without a guardrail on the grand canyon that exist if you go to another side and that not a lot of deaths happened there
@@misham6547 soooo it's fine and dandy until people see cautions and warnings and guards they immediately think, screw it?
It's like we never got past 13 lol
@@someamvcreator3878
Aries
This is why I'm happy at home with chip, Penny and used napkin.
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@@thereisnosanctuary6184 It's a Spongebob episode called " I had an accident ".
This is an underrated comment
@@donutpop_ Thank you! Finally someone gets it!
I see what you did there 😂😂
On my trip to the Grand Canyon, in 1976, we went to the far end of the canyon, to Little Colorado Falls. The Sherriff's search and rescue team was climbing over the falls looking for a college student who had fallen to his death. A victim of hazing.
Thank you for how you describe the people who died in your videos. You remind those of us who are indeed fascinated by horrific incidents that these were full human beings who don't deserve to be defined by their last moments.
Look, I know we all make stupid decisions in life and they should not define us, BUT WHEN YOU'RE TOLD NOT TO CROSS THE SAFETY RAILING OF A 6,000 FOOT DROP, YOU'RE GOING TO BE REMEMBERED AS "THAT IDIOT THAT FELL DOWN THE GRAND CANYON"
"His joke hadn't landed"
Well he certainly did
I should be more upset by this humor but honestly if the dad did stuff like this on the regular, his ghost is probably laughing at these comments
eventually....
@@vaszgul736 yeah honestly i hope his ghost likes them. Even though it was stupid and foolish of him, a daughter and wife lost their father and husband that day. Still very sad
Yeah I thought of that too! I hope the narrator didn't do that on purpose, because I can imagine that from the daughter's point of view. What a horrible story!
Or didn’t land
Who tries to scare their daughter like that?
You wouldn’t need to tell me to be cautious - I HATE HEIGHTS!
Exactly what I was thinking.
Some people are just dickheads.
My dad did... much happier ending for us but he just goes for a laugh when he sees the chance. But no one needs to tell me how much of a dumbass move it is, to say the least lol
My brother used to scare me like that when we were kids. He did grow up though!
I am not necessarily ascared of heights, but I sure as hell respect it.....
Only the most insufferable dads and uncles
My great grandfather fell into the canyon in about 1970. Thankfully he landed on a small ledge and survived.
Just shows that being scared of things, like heights, isn’t always a bad thing
The pointlessness of these deaths is so depressing.
It's not though, if they are that stupid, it was time for them to go.
I dunno, some of them rocks is pointy
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 😬😬💀💀
@@dsmackk5 it really is just natural selection. Less food to grow ig
Hope they didn't add more dummies to the world
I saw a gust of wind blow a young lady off a narrow path next to a cliff on the island of Santorini in Greece. She fell several hundred feet to her death. Her screams as she fell still haunts me 16 years later.
That’s fucking crazy
That happened in Niagara Falls, a lady with and umbrella got taken by a gust of wind.
I am so sorry you had to experience that. Holy shit.
I can only imagine how traumatic that was for you!
Oh my god!!!
Last time I was there my oldest son was 2.5. He's 23 now. He tried to slip under the rail but any time he was anywhere near the viewing areas I had my hand firmly around his. At one point he was hanging under a railing and the only reason he didn't fall is because I firmly had his hand. Little kids have little sense and they have no concept of danger. They are very fast too. It was pretty stressful but we all survived it. Amazing views though, just amazing. My son got to go back last year for work. I wasn't there and he didn't remember being there before.
Bringing 2 year olds to tour around the edge of the Grand Canyon is so shockingly stupid that I'm assumimg your lying and if not your kids should be removed from your custody and put with adults that have normal functioning brain .
Probably not the best idea to take toddlers there tbh
@Fulgrim-gm2dg Because small children change much faster than adults. There is a big difference between 2 and 2.5 and 3. But in an adult, there is normally no difference.
I remember talking to a park ranger there and basically he admonished people taking risky photos because the park rangers don't like cleaning blood off the rocks. He was certainly fed up.
tourist: "hey stranger, would you mind taking a picture for me?" *falls off cliff*
other tourist: "uh... huh... *shrugs and takes pictures of the corpse*
Lol
The Grand Canyon is massive with so many nooks and crannies it can be impossible for emergency services to locate bodies at times. It’s morbid, but also possible the person with the camera was thinking it might be helpful for authorities in locating the body
Then inherits free camera. Develops film, finds pictures of victim's mother naked.
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Holy shit...BAHAHA!!!😝😝😝
@@oldageisdumb I can't and won't judge the bystander for any act they took in this situation. That's kind of my point. It's so absurd, how could anyone be expected to react in such a situation?
I firmly believe that some people lack that "spidey sense" part of the brain that gives us pause when danger is nearby.
Perhaps,
Until a drunk driver broke my back I used to skydive. I have seen people do the stupidity described by this video at the GC in person, there is a big difference between taking some risks and being an idiot. There is a difference between taking a known risk and being an idiot...
I also once knew one of the seasonal park employees who saw the man step off the edge while framing his picture of the lodge. She also saw a man throw a stick too far for his dog to retrieve and heard it go yelping all the way down...
@@davidhollenshead4892 crazy how you got hit by a drunk driver while skydiving
@@valx7586 truck-kun was determined to isekai him.
Humans haven’t relied on gut prey instinct to survive for a good few thousand years, so there has been enough time for that sense to slowly peter out, since there’s no real selection pressure on it anymore. I do believe that some people just have stronger survival instincts than others, usually people who have family histories that involve jobs that would still require those instincts such as farming or homesteading. When you live your entire life in relative perfect safety, you just don’t really hone your spidey senses, which sucks when you come into danger
He said at the end that the vast majority of deaths were young and male... it’s a fact that the male brain is not fully developed until they’re about 25 years old. They actually DON’T have a fully developed “spidey sense” for this reason
Dad was the greatest prankster of all time . And the guy who said “watch me” what a performance 🎭.
Thank you for your respect for the victims at the end. I absolutely hate when people act like victims "deserve it" simply for doing something stupid or making a mistake. I don't understand how anyone can think that foolishness or simple distraction somehow merits death!
On my trip there I was horrified to see little kids running along feet from huge cliffs while the parents took pictures and seemed oblivious to the danger their kids were right next to. It was like watching children play with a loaded gun.
Woooooow! Scary.
As a child in Yellowstone Park I watched parents attempting to put a small child on the back of a bison like a horse, for a photo. People screamed at them and they retreated. I was frozen in horror.
And that is pretty much what happens in the USA
@@LS-ot4ho People making poor decisions is a universal trait, not just in the U.S.A. Saw a few foreign tourists do dangerous stunts at the Grand Canyon when I was there several times.
Can't fix stupid
“His joke didn’t land well.”
That’s my kind of dark humor
Went down like a lead balloon.
Joke didn't land, but he sure did.
Yeah, it really fell flat
happy 666 likes
That is an absolutely cruel prank!
I live in AZ and in the fourth grade, my elementary school took us on a field trip to the Grand Canyon. It was winter and there was literally thin ice and snow covering where we were walking 😭 I remember being so scared walking on some parts bc I was well aware I literally could slip and fall into the canyon
I was riveted by a level of fear and respect for the obvious. My big mistake was wading into the edge of the River at the bottom. AS the gravel bottom rapidly washed loosely under my feet I just managed to spin around and get the hell out of the water. There have been countless events of this kind of death there also. I cooled off in the smaller ice-cold stream at Phantom Ranch on the floor of the canyon, after that experience.
"His prank didnt go to plan"
It definitely got the point across.
You could say that his joke fell flat.
@@MoeMoon he'd probably still be alive if he was a stand up guy.
Unfortunately his point was the ONLY thing to get across.
You guys. I like you guys.
What a side splitter
Imagine holding someone's camera and they just fall to their deaths in front of you
Free camera!
Awesome but traumatizing
@@davis4555 LMAO!!
Walk to the edge set it on automatic to take non stop pictures and drop it after the deceased.
Then they took pictures of his final moments. Smh 🤦♀️
When we were there, I bought the book "Death in the Grand Canyon". Truly interesting and fascinating about people's perception of the canyon. Some people complain that the trails aren't paved & it seems like they never take enough water.
I was hiking the Bright Angel trail with my husband and nephew a couple of years ago. I was wearing hiking shoes and using hiking sticks. All was well except one misstep and I slipped on lose rock trying to step aside for passing hikers. About had a heart attack while trying not to fling over the edge. Fortunately I caught myself and just stepped back to the inside of the trail ledge to catch my breath. Definitely respect gravity and balance! I would hike it again but it's a feeling I'll never forget!
When I was 10 years old, my dad scared the crap out of me by climbing over the railing and getting near the edge of a massive drop off to get a picture. I was so angry at him!!! I am 55 and never forgot it. I still remember how that felt - I was TERRIFIED. I still think it was the stupidest, most irresponsible thing to do, to take a risk like that for a picture.
It's so deep, you have time to think about what you did wrong on the way down.
Just a couple of years ago my dad did almost the same thing! My mom and I were so terrified, I was shaking and on the edge of tears. The worst possible scenario kept playing in my mind until he climbed back to a reasonably safe spot. It was so scary I don’t think I’ll ever forget!
@@bridgetdunn5485 Yes, I was on verge of tears too! I’m so glad they both made it.
Damm your father was quite silly in that moment
And how do TVE pictures look?
The warnings and guardrails are there for a reason people!!
people get pushed
If the huge gaping crack in the planet's crust isn't enough of a warning, I doubt any number of fences or notices are going to help much.
Note to self, "don't climb over guardrails".
Nah that’s just for “other people”. I’m special and an accident could never happen to me.
Famous last words
They don’t care. It’s all about pictures and getting likes now.
Your last example was a guy who had to be rescued the week before. It's true that it was just a momentary lapse of judgement. I think it's also true that it for many of them it was also the last in a long series of habitual poor judgement. When you don't value your own life enough to think through potentially dangerous choices, that's habitual. It's partly chance or fate, but it's also partly a careless intentional decision.
I used to go to the North Rim growing up, but when I went during my 14th birthday the crippling fear of the heights consumed my body. I remember just crying the whole time I was there, and now at 23 I still have nightmares of falling off the Grand Canton on repeat.
Lesson Learned: If you're going to sit on the edge of any steep surface, especially one with a slope toward the edge, do not attempt to stand from it. Pull yourself backwards until your legs/feet are completely beyond the edge, then turn over and crawl away, and stand slowly, allowing your sense of balance to return.
One thing most people don't understand is how much your sense of balance can betray you on or near a steep drop. "Losing your balance" or experiencing "vertigo" is a matter of the mind and body sending false reports to each other.
To test your sense of balance, go on a swing (as at a playground). If you get nauseous while swinging, your sense of balance is poor. However, you can improve it at any time. The best thing to do -- true! -- is go on a swing every day (for as long as you can tolerate it, obviously) for about a week or two. Then do so every few days to maintain it. Children love to swing because it helps them develop and maintain their sense of balance. As adults we stop and we shouldn't.
But ppl go to the edge to show off in the first place. So standing up and waltzing away is part of the show. These showoff d-bags will risk their life for that moment of showing off.
No it’s a matter of inner ear problems which cause vertigo. I have vertigo, I have to crawl to/ away from edges of cliffs. I’ve hiked all over Arizona , I’ve been on ledges to get to cliff deellings , so trust me it’s vertigo.
A few years ago I, with a friend, ventured onto a sea defence which, on the seaward side, was 'protected' by massive concrete blocks. They no longer lie level or even and are layered akin to giant steps. We climbed down onto these to explore and hopping from one block to the next, I've never felt so out of control of my body. The sensation was strong enough for me to do things carefully, using my hands too to keep myself under control. I've been in places since that needed care but I've not felt anything as iffy as I did that day with my friend.
No the lesson learned is DON’T
And inside the inner ear they start calcifying as people get older. It's why people get to why they get sick & can't stand fast rotational and up &down amusement park rides that they used to love when they were young.
Protip, the instant you start to get vertigo in a situation like this, drop straight down into a sitting position rather than attempt to battle the dizziness standing
or lay down
That's what I always do. My landlady finds it hilarious that I quickly stand up to get something, then randomly sit down in the middle of the kitchen.
Precisely. i dont have vertigo but i do have absence and tonic clonic seizures when i stand up. Dont try to fight any dizziness you have, ever. lay down and prop your feet up against a wal until you feel all the blood rush out of them.
@@ktreznin5538 Yes, but laying down should come AFTER sitting, because if you're somewhere like the grand canyon, plopping into a sit is much faster, and therefore, safer.
Or don't sit on the edge of the Grand Canyon if you suffer from vertigo.
Happens ALMOST EVERY YEAR here. This ain't Disneland. Keep your hands on your kids, keep your face to the edge, respect railings, and look out for gusting winds!
When I went to arches in Utah we were at the big arch and a girl jumped off a rock, tripped, skidded and stopped about 6 inches from the edge of a sheer cliff face. Me and another girl there had just been discussing our fear of heights and how scared we were on the trail but proud of ourselves we made it
Props to the random stranger who was so dedicated to taking pictures for the guy who asked him, that he took several pictures as the guy was falling to his death.
It was his dying wish, so I guess the stranger would have felt bad not honoring it
@@ceecraft1362 Sure he felt bad either way.
great effort no doubt..
Those photos would have helped the search team find the body much more quickly and easily, due to the landmarks included in the photos.
Having said that, the photo-taker would not have been able to unsee that guy falling to his death.
Except theres zero proof of any of this. Boring fake bullshit video with zero real world evidence or footage. Yawn
An estimated 5.9 million people visit the grand canyon each year, bringing the incidence rate well below 1 in a million. It's amazing that it isn't much higher.
Its because most of them were not tested if they could survive this without the railings....
Agreed. Having 50ish deaths since 1919 isn't that high given the sheer number of tourists.
Idiots will be idiots
Really is amazing that the incident rate isn't higher
50 that they know of. This canyon is absolutely huge! How many lone hikers have taken a fall, their bodies never found?
I somehow fell asleep while letting videos played and I just woke up to this lmaoo
I think one factor in falls is the rim is at ground level, not elevated. With most steep cliff-like formations, you need to go up to go down. With everything ground level and below, you can’t actually see the enormity of the canyon beneath you. It just looks like even ground.
And people with their legs over the edge. Augh! Just the thought of it makes me dizzy. When I’ve gone to the GC, I haven’t even felt comfortable going to the rails. I think would be terrifying to go onto the “glass bridge.”
Isn't it weird how when terrain get's dangerous your body decides to throw away it's decades of balancing experience? Like, you'd think when it get's dangerous your sense of balance would be heightened, but no, it just leaves you.
my balance leaves me 24/7, i cant sit on the border of a sidewalk without having to hold onto the person next to me
only to still fall.
Well no
All you need to do is scoot back
It gets disorienting because you were staring 1000 ft down and then just quickly stood up and shifted your view to 2 ft away
I’m a rock climber, so I deal with this all the time. It seems comical to me now, when people talk about how they can’t stand close to the edge of things or they’ll lose their balance, but I also remember that being me before I started climbing. Like anything, I think exposure and practice can make it much easier.
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@@trinidadcollier9437 So you're almost definitely gonna be a statistic eventually but yolo
Niagara Falls also has a very high fall rate, especially from suicide. There are barely any barriers and the park is open 24/7 with no security at all at night. It’s a beautiful yet tragic place to visit.
I was actually surprised suicide wasn't mentioned in this video.
The Canadian side has a stone wall with a steel fence on top of that to dissuade people from climbing over, but if someone wants to do something bad enough, most barriers won't stop them. I love Niagara Falls.
They named Viagara off Niagara.
holy shit it's open 24/7!!!!????
@@meghansullivan6812 well yeah. it is a natural waterfall
It's feels odd, being from Sydney, where, about 90 minutes down the coast, there is the blowhole at Kiama. I've been there quite a few times as a kid and similarly, people have died showing off, trying to get pictures. The last time I went, it only had a five foot, climbable fence around it.
I always had it drilled into me by my parents to be careful and respect the dangers. I've also heard too many stories of people not doing so. The comparison seems so stark, when hearing stories like these.
I am amazed by how many people you see sitting over the fence at the Kiama blowhole, particularly if it is hitting pretty big.
this is my first time watching one of your videos, and I just want to say that you have an incredibly calming voice. It's so nice to listen to, and turns these tragic almost into bedtime stories lol
He's in the wrong business. He should be citing last rights! Who wouldn't want to die?
If I was plummeting to my death after trying to take a selfie, I think my last words would be “For F**ks Sake!!!”, my words echoing around the canyon. I’d be well pissed off.
This is a good comment. i lol'd.
Me too!
I would for sure yell “f*ck me!!!*”
Really? Mine would be *GASP* "Oh no oh no!" "Shit" "Help please oh shit" "oh no here it comes" *CRASH*
Coming from falling experience in skiing, all I ever manage to get out is “oh damn”
Love this comment, sure your not australian?? 🤣🤣
My first visit to the Grand Canyon I bought a book that chronicled deaths at the park out of morbid curiosity. This video covered a few of the deaths off the rim of the canyon, but most of the deaths were in the canyon itself. Flash floods, heat stroke, dehydration, drowning in the Colorado river, scorpions, snakes; there are many more ways to die at the Grand Canyon than a failed selfie or prank gone wrong.
EDIT: The book is "Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon"
Wow I'd love to read that!
Don't forget the snakes! We have a lot of snakes here.
body dumps are also a problem.
That’s very true. Stupid people are usually the ones falling over the cliffs, but the unprepared and unlucky ones are usually those dying inside the actual canyon. Be safe out there everyone.
Heat Stroke is the biggest issue at the GC. There are people who have heard that it is possible to hike to the river & back in a day, and then find out they are not in as great shape as they thought there were...
My family and I visited the Portland Head Lighthouse a couple of years ago and we were astonished and shocked to see a brother and sister (young teens) climbing up the cliffs without any climbing gear that is so dangerous because of the spray from the waters, and no parent or guardian was in sight to stop them, nor was there any employee there to stop them. Kids are under the false impression that the world is a large jungle gym made for them to climb on and that they're invincible. They're nuts!
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I don’t like heights even on a balcony. And I get vertigo. I was at the amazing Grand Canyon once. Probably the most amazing natural wonder I’ve seen. But I stayed far from the edge. You don’t have to go to the edge of it to enjoy it
I feel like getting to the edge is part of the experience, just don’t go past any railings. There’s many areas that have safe lookout points to observe the canyon (on both sides)
Same bro, same.
I have acrophobia, literally my only fear...
I’ve been stabbed, held up at gunpoint, jumped by a group of dudes, and run over by a car... but that thing...
That thing genuinely scares the shit out of me.
One small slip and it’s goodbye forever, no second chance.
Me neither! Sometimes cliffs fail and collapse, and I wouldn't want to be on them when they do. This may be rare, but they are really just temporarily stable (in geological time). Everything that rises must converge.
Yea I never go to edges with steep drop offs. I stay way back. I can see how someone would get dizzy in that canyon especially after sitting.
There's a library in Salt Lake City where the stairs, elevators, and railings are completely made of glass. It brings out the worst in me. Last time I went there, I literally had to crawl on my hands and knees because it was freaking me out so much.
The dad really is the boy who cried wolf. Played so many dumb pranks that his daughter didn’t believe he was dead and left.
@Kragma Joan Ah, so you didn't just go to my comment and try to be a Karen, you're going to tons of comments because you don't have anything better to do on father's day. Do you not have a father, Joan?
@Kragma Joan The analogy was perfect for that situation though? The dad kept pranking his daughter so she didn't believe his - what she thought was bullshit and just left, thinking it's just a prank again. Noone said anything about her being able to help if she knew it wasn't a prank - just that the dad pranked her one time too many and caused her to live with the fact that she saw her dad die and didn't even react to it. She's gonna have to live with that for the rest of her life, knowing she thought her dad was just joking when he was actually dead and walking away from that without a single care in her mind until she finally realized he's dead
@Kragma Joan Because if the dad hadn't pranked his daughter multiple times she would've taken the fall seriously and wouldn't have to find out hours later that she witnessed her dad fall to his death but didn't know. He cried wolf one too many times with his pranks and his daughter had to suffer more even more for that. The mental anguish from seeing your dad die in front of you is already bad enough but finding out you left your dad fall to his death without knowing if you could've done anything / what was going on and only later on realizing is even worse. All because her dad pranked her one too many times. Sure the analogy isn't perfect but analogies usually aren't, they're just used to make something easier to understand
@Kragma Joan In the original telling of the boy who cried wolf he does get killed, because no one comes to help him, because they don't believe him.
The moral of the story is suppose to be something along the lines of "Don't make things up lest people ignore you when you need them."
@Kragma Joan Ok, so lets say he wasn't the kind of guy to pull pranks like that, then he literally wouldn't have been in that situation at all because he wouldn't have decided to do it.
You can go ahead and choose to believe that the analogy doesn't work but it does.
i was there yesterday, a man from our group jumped over the the rails of the sky walk. definitely wasn't accidental, they shut down for the day but brushed it under the rug real fast. absolutely devastating and traumatic. i've been surprised that there's no news coverage of it, i guess the local press is used to it by now.
Probably don't want to spread the idea around
Yea people jump all the time or get pushed thing is the canyon is a big business so they file the paper work and tuck it away the next day most don't even know it occurred usually unless your revisiting there's really nothing anyone can do to prevent someone going over even if they built a big fence someone would scale it
Jeezus
It’s like the Golden Gate Bridge
We were there in 2014 and I couldn't believe how many people ignored the railings in order to get closer to the edge, many just teenagers. I am sure they had no idea that the ground by the edge may not be so stable and could give way and off they would go. The story about the ones who became dizzy after standing up makes perfect sense to me. How sad to lose your life that way.
I’m afraid of heights. Wouldn’t see me acting like a fool.
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@Occam's Shave Cream it's really cool honestly it's not even really dangerous unless you try to go down into the canyon which is a bad idea in general.I think the craziest thing I've ever done is drive up a volcano in Hawaii that was much more nerve-racking honestly but also well worth it.
imagine doing a prank where you fake your own death, but you end up actually dying. that guy kinda had it coming. like why would you even try to make your daughter think you died? if she actually thought he died in the prank, it would have been so traumatic. and then he ended up fucking dying anyway. what a dumbass
@@canavero4288 I've known several people who have taken dumb risks at the Grand canyon either trying to get close to the edge or jumping across little rocks I think there's something inexplicable within human mentality that makes certain people do incredibly dangerous and pointless things. I guess in a way it can all be summed up in the fact that our life is so finite and we never really know what kind of dumb shit is going to lead to our death.
Phobias like that are there for a reason. I have never understood adrenaline junkies.
Once i hear the words "climbed over the safety rails." It's just stories about darwinism.
I once climbed the safety rails around a 3,500 year old tree, then climbed in a hole inside of it. My friend and I were tripping pretty hard and surprised that we could both fit inside the tree.
Later that day, we were fighting over the rainbow colored gem we found inside, like at the beginning of return of the king. It was very weird, but all is well that ends well.
A few years later, a meth head burned that tree down while smoking meth inside of it. It sucks, but she also lived.
My main point is, sometimes hopping the guardrail is harmless fun and good and fine.
@@stevem.o.1185 that was alot of words with no point behind them. A guard rail at a tree does not equal a guardrail at a canyon
@@stevem.o.1185 that has the be the dumbest comparison I’ve heard. I think u fried ur brain and that’s from a fellow psychonaut.
The woman hearing the story about someone climbing over the railing to sit on the edge and falling then proceeding to do the exact same thing.... 🤦🏾♀️
There’s plenty of places beyond the guard rails that are somewhat safe but people are morons and most of the time with these deaths they either tested fate by going way too close to the edge in a sketchy spot or they simply were not paying attention.
I love at the end when the narrator offers sympathy to those who died instead of making fun of them.
My palms get sweaty just watching stuff like this on my phone anyone else?
When I visited they were LITERALLY fishing someone's body out, and then further down the path there were people climbing on a really precarious rock formation.
Railings are the number one thing that tourists just don't understand the existence of. I'm a Dane and although we don't have canyons, we do have some fairly high calcium and sand based cliffs. While these cliffs don't have railings (that would be a futile effort as they constantly break apart at the edge), the trails are far in land and all tourists are told extensively NOT to wander off the trails, NOT to go near the edge of the cliffs and NOT to climb on the cliffs. Yet we've still ended up with a record of people, tourists and Danes alike, doing just that. Climbing up the cliffs can result in avalanches of dirt, clay, sand and loose calcium, which will bury the idiots alive (this is also told as the reason why not to climb the cliff sides). Standing on the edge can easily result in the edge breaking off and taking you with it into the void, as it is highly volatile. Yet this also happens. And finally, don't stand too close to the cliff, for the above mentioned reasons. Yet numerous people think its just old wives tales and ends up getting buried alive
Literally? Like with a fishing rod?
@@alukuhito uhhhh with rescue dudes actually
@@ashleigh1160 I don't think you know what "literally" means.
@@alukuhito seems like you literally don’t have anything better to do
One of the scariest moments of my life was almost falling off the Grand Canyon. I slipped on some pebbles on the trail down and slid on my back. My legs were dangling off the edge and two people grabbed me and pulled me back up. A very near-death experience
Wow 😳
Yeah that's a big fuck no for me . Glad you were alright!
Oh my god, thank goodness those two people were there to pull you back up.
How does one slip on pebbles? And did you cross the railings?
@@Strider_Jaco just wasn’t paying any attention. It was a small downhill part and I slipped. There were no railings on the trail we were on, it’s a hike down the canyon
Definitely a message of caution for hiking in general. Just gotta keep away from the edges and you’re good. It’s worth the trip to see these beautiful places
You could do an entire series of people who have died while hiking in the canyon. They don't prepare properly and overestimate their skill levels. It's incredibly hot in the canyon and it's easy to get lost or go off trail by accident. I've been hiking down in the Canyon and saw many people who needed to be rescued. They all assumed it would be an easy hike and didn't bring enough water and were improperly clothed. I've never seen anyone die, but I have seen very difficult rescues out of the canyon. One group of tourists were wearing flip flops, improper clothing, and didn't have hats. I'm certain a few of them would have died if other hikers were not there to intervene. One of the saddest stories that sticks out in my mind is that of a boy scout troop. I think they were from Utah. As I remember, they didn't carry extra water with them, and they were not skilled enough to do such a grueling multi-day hike. The troop leaders made a series of terrible mistakes and at least one boy died of heat exhaustion and exposure.
Also my great uncle was part of the search and recovery team at the grand Canyon. He would hike 20 miles a day to rescue people (mostly bodies).
One time someone who was dizzy fell off the edge of the canyon. By the time my uncle got to him, rigor mortis had set in. The body had his hand sticking out at 90 degrees like to say "high five. "
My uncle couldn't zip the arm into the body bag and so, not wanting to break his arm, he had the arm sticking out and zipped it as tight as he could. He hooked it up to a helicopter and he went to hike out.
When he got the trailhead, his boss was there and said "next time you break his arm."
The helicopter pilot flew the body over a popular viewing point and people thought it was so nice to see someone being rescued waving at them.
Hope floats
I was all sad until the last sentence, then just died laughing.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Probably one of the best stories I've ever read in a youtube comments section
I feel bad for laughing at that last part
😂😂🤣🤣
Why is it so many of these examples start with "climbed over the guard rail?"
You can lead a horse to water...
But you can't inflate a horse with helium
Natural selection I suppose 🤷♂️🤣 watch me deify gravity !
They sell a great book at the visitor center , south face, that describes all the deaths in the GC. I’ve read it twice. My wife and I were at Mathers Point years ago and a man fell to his death. He was over the barrier and a wind blew his hat off his head. He tried to catch it and lost his balance. He fell over 400 feet to his death. Very sad.
I'm terrified of heights, so you never find me anywhere near the edge ! I hate to see other people do foolish stunts that involve high places.
I never got close to the edge. I was already dizzy from ten feet away. A young couple standing at the edge asked me if I could take their photo. I begged them to take a step or two closer to me before I took their picture. The wind was strong that day. People who aren’t afraid of heights don’t realize how often they risk their lives.
we were there on a windy day with our young daughters. It was terrifying! Bad enough watching foolish people getting too close to the edge while exploring. The winds were gusting.
Watched teenagers defy their mom while finding seating to watch the sunset. She screamed at them and I didn't blame her! The kids were oblivious that it was a cliff, not a theater seat!
@@mischiefroadtripadventures I wouldn't want to be a park ranger. They spend all their time having to verse grown adults in personal safety and how to conduct themselves in public because they think they're an exception to the rule.
Same here. We approached one of the more sheer overlooks and I was overcome with vertigo well back from the edge. I just sat down by a tree and watched the view from there. While watching other people I saw a toddler run towards the edge. He was caught by his father, who looked like he was about to faint after the incident.
People who aren’t afraid of cars don’t know how often they risk their live
@@MrBarnettcmThat is true. So many things are dangerous, and people rarely actually realize it until they are hurt or they see somebody being hurt or killed.
The dad pulling a prank on his daughter story hit pretty close to home to me cause my dad is exactly like that! I can't even imagine how she felt when she realized it wasn't a prank!
also, what kind of parent thinks it is funny to pretend to die as a prank and scare the crap out of their child? The fact that the man actually died is a bit of karma---sorry he died and his daughter went through that trauma but holy hell, who thinks it is funny to fake their death to prank their child?
@@ruthjones3065 judging by the daughters first reaction to ignore him he probably did goofy stuff like that all the time and knew she wouldn't freak out. My dad does similar stuff too
Yeah that was awful.
@@jollymastermind1237 that's why the story hits me so hard, because my dad does similar stuff too!
@Black Lives Dont Matter Judging by your comment and user name- does spouting off hate and unnecessary comments make you feel better? Cause it speaks volumes of how sad and pathetic of a person you actually are
Grand Canyon is beautiful! Stories are so sad. Thank you very much for sharing!
This video should be mandatory viewing for everyone who enters the park.
I visited the canyon a few years ago. Seeing it in person, you can't grasp how massive it is. The middle of the canyon is so far away, you don't even have any depth perception of it. It's literally so far away that you can't tell how far away it is.
I stayed behind the guardrails and my mind remained blown by the sheer size and beauty of the place.
I've been there once. I stayed behind the railing, but I was paranoid that someone would just come up behind me, and nobody would be able to stop them from sending to me oblivion
New gens these days, y’all aren’t capable of anything that doesn’t involve a computer.. sad
@@lynch42o okay boomer
@@lynch42o go take your pills, old crone
@@lynch42o OK boomer
Can we just take a moment to comprehend that idiots dieing to selfies has been going on since 1925
Even longer. This is just the first death at the Grand Canyon. Imagine on mountains around the world.
@@doodle3868 since when does a spelling accident rule this guy as stupid enough to hang off the Grand Canyon
@@doodle3868 oh no a typo!
@@doodle3868 Ahh yes, dying for a cool picture is on the same level of stupidity to making a typo
Everyone thinks we became more stupid than we once were but we were always stupid.
In 2001, as a 50+ Year old man, I solo hiked from rim to rim to rim - over a span of several day. Started at the South RIm, to PHantom Ranch for a night. THen ALL the way to the North Rim in one day. BTW this was around August 10 - so it was brutally hot. I spent 3 days at the North Rim to recover then hiked back to PHantom Ranch, spent a night, then back to the South Rim.
It was incredible how careful i was versus how other people, sadly, including kids. I am surprised that there aren't 50 fatal falls EVERY year. There is a stretch not too far from the North Rim, where the "trail" is literally a tunnel (with only one side) cut into the sheer rock wall - that seems to be at least 200 yards. Picture this. This sheer wall of rock was cut into by man - where they carved in effect a tunnel where rock is on one side and under one's feet and over one's head. But the other side is open - and the fall is about 400 feet to one's death. With no ground or trees or anything to hope to catch and hold onto.
I was petrified when I encountered this even though I was fully aware, via pictures/video, of that section. The width of this "open tunnel" is maybe 4 to 5 feet. But people would pass me ON the open side. Mindless risk. Once I had a 10 year old boy complain that I wasn't moving fast enough so I leaned into the wall and he passed me like in a school hallway.
I find it incredible that our government (wrongly) goes to great lengths to "protect the people" yet there is no railing or rope or whatever safety device possible in that stretch.
It was so scary that it took my breath away. Before I reached that stretch the first time, a stranger I met, expressed his concern for me in that stretch - since my back-pack extended a little above my head. He was afraid that I might lean toward the wall or maybe stumble just a bit that would move my head toward the wall and that by striking or rubbing my tall backpack against the wall, I might lose my balance and or be propelled off the 400 cliff. He was so concerned that he got behind me and put a hand on my backpack (I was carrying about 50 lbs but only weighed 140 BUT extremely fit) EVEN though he had a young boy (11?) and a young daughter (14?) and his wife with him. That's how scared he was for ME versus family.
That's how scary I found the GC to be. It is a wonderful place to be but I will NEVER traverse that section again unless I were to do it on my hands and knees. The Park system should anchor a "net wall" along that section to catch people if they fell.
Reminds me so much of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. People ignoring signs, going to the edge to get photos, etc. Theres been plenty of deaths there too.
Lmao I thought the exact same thing, I was one of the idiot tourists crawling upto the edge to look over. I don't regret it, as it was a view I'll never forget, but it was very foolish in hindsight.
Those few moments in between accidentally killing yourself and absolute oblivion must be indescribably scary. The mind trying to escape, to find hope, mixed with the sheer regret of fucking up so badly. It might be the worst feeling one can have...
Can confirm. I slipped and fell in my shower earlier this week.
Just silent in his shock......wow
It's called Waking up Dead.. seen it many times in hosp environment.
Hopefully, all who fell were either knocked unconscious by a protruding rock or made peace with their deaths before impact.
No one will ever know
As someone who’s visited the Grand Canyon: it is truly a sight to behold, and instills a sense of awe and fear. You feel your stomach drop when you look down those hundreds of feet to the bottom. A majority of the rim has no railing, so it is easy to get to the edge. But still, have common sense. Don’t risk your life for a picture.
More like thousands of feet to the bottom. The Grand Canyon is one mile deep - that's 5,280 feet.
I was surprised by how many of these deaths occurred in areas with railings. Intentionally climbing a railing seems a lot more foolish than getting a little too close to the edge in an area without any safety measures.
@@EmeraldAshesAudio well there are those who will climb two fences to get decapitated so what’s one little guard rail?
yeah like a railing gets built... its there for a reason... if u learn to take a decent photo u can take one from behind the railing... don't need to risk your life for that nice pic on insta
You describing it gave me vertigo lol
I'm a climber when we summit a climb we are very cautious at the top of any climb and never venture to the edge unless tied in. Gravity always wins....
My grandpa likes telling the story about how when he was there, a weird old woman told him to "never took at the canyon" because it's "cursed". She thought it was like filled with demons or something evil like that and whatever it was tries to lure people in to go over the edge and die. She thought height Vertigo was a siren spell lol
What happens with height vertigo is that your body is having a hard time maintaining its balance because of a lack of visual cues, causing people to stumble. It can also happen when you're hiking up a mountain and look down, doesn't even need to be such a sudden steep drop like the grand canyon.
"She listened dutifully and went and did the exact same thing"
lol exactly
Got what she deserved, stupid individual.
@@ID-pw8zb how empathetic. I don't think she deserved to die at all even if she made an extremely stupid mistake.
@@Revealingstorm. if you don’t listen to people in situations like this, you deserve all you get.
@@ID-pw8zb disagree. No one deserves to die like that
I've been twice the North Rim. Both times I've seen people hopping the railing for pictures, scaling rocks to try to get some unique angle for the sunsets, and kids running up and down the paths. People see it as an attraction, and not the vast, deadly image of nature's power that it is.
Ok? No one cares…
@@Steven-gs8oh lots of people care, that's why 60 people liked his comment you clown
@@Steven-gs8oh you obviously do
@@G0DUSS0P He's saying that for attention.
Don't feed the pigeons.
@@Steven-gs8oh nobody asked if anyone cares tho? xddd
Does anyone else spend the majority of a video reading the comments then realize you haven’t been paying attention so you have to replay it? 😂 ugh
Having been to The Grand Canyon in the Winter, I can say that it would be incredibly easy to slip on ice which is basically everywhere when it snows and slide underneath the railings and into the abyss. The bottom railing is about 2 or so feet off the ground and easy to pass under. I’m surprised that isn’t a larger cause of falls into the canyon
Fortunately, my dad brought with him to our country “Death in Grand Canyon”, a book detailing every single death in the Grand Canyon since recorded history, and a book every single visitor to the Grand Canyon should read
Oh I hvae the book and another one called "Death at Glacier" as well! My fav books to read
@@franziwischmann3659 There's also a 'Death in Yellowstone' too! I think they're all part of a series
@@Tronomics2000 I guess I need them all. Ive visited 29 Nat Parks Already and only have Three Books of Death. lol
Do they make a braille version?
I HAVE THAT BOOK! I want to get the others in that series
"I think your father just fell to his death."
"Don't worry, he does this all the time."
Imagine the pure guilt of realising you had WALKED AWAY as your father died at the bottom of the canyon? Christ
@@michalaswindail783 I doubt he made it all the way down to the bottom. Probably ended up a few hundred feet down at most. It's a canyon not a cliff!
Faking that you’re dying is NOT a prank, that shit is traumatic.
Death by selfie is such a clear darwin award, its hard to even be sad about it when you hear of it…