YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service says an 18-year-old woman has died after falling 400 feet in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
The Park Service says she was a Yellowstone concession employee on her first day in the park. She was hiking a canyon trail with three other acquaintances when she ventured off trail onto a loose rock promontory, which gave way underneath her.
The accident occurred near Inspiration Point Thursday afternoon. Her body was retrieved Friday.
Interestingly enough, several years ago, I was shown a mortality table in a Life Insurance manual. The surprise was that in every age group from 1 to 99 , approxmately the same died from some cause every year, year after year. It is almost as if there is some bigger power or the forces of nature are lurking around every corner to accomplish that statistic in each age group.
I have helped haul people who were well experienced, out of the mountains, so we can't say it's always inexperience. Perhaps we all just need to be ready (spiritually) for that occurrance and enjoy every day as if it were our last.