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Related: About this forumTourist taking picture tumbles into Yellowstone park canyon.
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) Rangers in Yellowstone National Park have rescued a New York tourist who stumbled backward into a canyon while trying to take a picture.
A statement released Monday says the 71-year-old man tumbled about 25 feet on May 10 before he stopped his fall by bracing his body and feet against a small crevice in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Two park rangers threw the man a rope that they secured to a tree and a sign. A park rescue team then pulled the man back to the rim using ropes and pulleys.
Officials say the man was extremely lucky that he stopped in the crevice because he was at the top of a 200-foot drop.
The man, whose name has not been released, was treated for a possible hip injury.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/4d1c51b829ac493e8bf29f4375bed5e1/tourist-taking-picture-tumbles-yellowstone-park-canyon
DEAR friends, PLEASE BE CAREFUL!
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)about a guy bitten by an Eastern Timber Rattlesnake in the Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area.
Our hero encountered the snake sunning on a rock. He wanted a photo but the snake was facing north. So he reached down to "adjust" the snake and was bitten.
He was taken to hospital and then fined $2,000 for tampering with an endangered species.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Yellowstone is not an amusement park!
Stevenmarc
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