Map of Grand Canyon Fatalities

[J-L]

Reposting this link from Hike Arizona:

Map of Grand Canyon Fatalities

"Over 770 deaths have occurred in Grand Canyon from the first river exploration by John Wesley Powell and his crew of 1869 to tourists falling off the rim today."

[Hikin’ Jim]

"Hastrick of Hertfordshire, England climbed over the rock guard wall to take a photo of the rim, not of the Canyon, from the very edge. While holding a camera to his face, Hastrick backed toward the Canyon and fell 333 feet."

You can't make this stuff up.

HJ
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[Sharon J.]

More murders than I would have expected.

[Ralph Burgess]

"Hastrick backed toward the Canyon and fell 333 feet."

That's a very precise number. Of course, he survived the first 332 feet.

[BlackHatGuy]

"More murders than I would have expected."

I would have expected more. Do you ever listen to couples/families on vacation?

[J-L]

Yea, it seems the most dangerous thing in the wilderness is one's spouse.

[David Thomas]

"from the first river exploration by John Wesley Powell and his crew"

Having had a son named after JWP, I feel compelled to point out that everyone who stayed with the Powell survived the trip. Only those who left the group (because they feared the inner canyon passage) were lost (never heard from and presumed died).

The cell showing 128 aircraft deaths was the 1956 mid-air collision of a United DC-7 and a TWA Super Constellation that resulted in the start of our modern air-traffic control system between airports.

[Frank T]

The cell showing 128 aircraft deaths was the 1956 mid-air collision of a United DC-7 and a TWA Super Constellation that resulted in the start of our modern air-traffic control system between airports.

One of my mountain biking buddies goes on one or more hiking trips a year to known or suspected aircraft crash sites. That one was one of the "known" sites he visited, with some aircraft wreckage still languishing in the cliffs and ravines. As part of his trip journal that he e-mailed me, he included links to the history of the event. What a horrifying accident.

As an OT aside, he has gone searching for missing WWII aircraft that are suspected to have crashed in the Sierras during the 1940s, but never located. I think he may have located one recently; if I can find his journal maybe I'll post it in "Post-Trip Reports" with his permission.

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