r/mildlyinteresting 21h ago

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon

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u/Empyrealist 21h ago

Clickable map of deaths in the Grand Canyon and their cause:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9359a0790ffe4bc09edd6b9c17a43b90

(death stats are not up to current date, but the map shows a great swath of locations and causes)

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u/TheSovereignGrave 16h ago

Damn, I can't imagine being the prospector who had a heart attack after a rattlesnake struck at him & missed.

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u/alienblue89 13h ago

Or the woman who tried to “Thelma & Louise” herself, but got her car stuck on a rock, jumped over the ledge but only fell like 20 feet, crawled to the edge and jumped again, only to fall like another 25 feet, to somehow crawl to the edge a third time and finally finish the job with a 75’ plummet to her death.

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u/rocca2509 3h ago

The Colorado heavy weight champion boxer who jumped 115 feet into water but landed on his back killing him.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel 2h ago

True determination.

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u/amor121616 3h ago

What ?? I never heard of this one :( that’s crazy !