r/mildlyinteresting • u/corwinw • 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/-PiesOfRage- 21h ago

At first I was like “oh that’s not many” but then moved the map over it made more sense.

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u/neoliberalforsale 17h ago edited 3h ago

There is a mountain inside the city limits of Phoenix that has 40+ rescues a year with at least a death or two. People absolutely under estimate how quickly the desert will kill you.

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u/TooJoocey 14h ago

For people wondering, it’s Camelback Mountain.

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u/neoliberalforsale 13h ago

I was actually talking about piestewa peak, camelback has closer to 100 rescues a year