Another person died at Grand Canyon National Park

Spell binding and spellbinding for so many, Grand Canyon National Park in northwest Arizona has recently reached a grim statistic.

While the park normally sees a median of 15 visitor deaths per year, a string of fatalities in latest months implies that Grand Canyon has now reached that number with four months left inside of the year.

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The latest death happened when Fifty 9-year-old Colorado resident Patrick Horton changed into passing during the Colorado River on a multi-time out.

‘Rangers responded to the scene and found the victim,’ NPS says

“Park rangers responded to the scene and found the victim, Patrick Horton, Fifty 9, of Salida, Colorado,” the National Park Service (NPS) writes. “Horton changed into on the 10th day of a non-commercial river time out along the Colorado River and adjusted into discovered deceased by members of his birthday party.”

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The authorities were referred to as at approximately 5:30 a.m. at Poncho’s Kitchen near river mile 137 along the Colorado River. Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Place of work initiated an investigation to work out the reason on the back of Horton’s death while the NPS is now now not yet releasing any details around what is believed.

Every other latest death happened when, on Aug. 25, visitors passing during the park on a river cruise found out the body of 33-year-old Arizona resident Chenoa Nickerson.

Nickerson’s friends had during the past, according to the NPS, reported her “missing following a flash flood that struck Havasu Canyon on Aug. 22” while earlier search and rescue efforts had now now not proven fruitful.

Every other eighty-year-old visitor did now now not continue to exist when a sudden flash flood caused his boat to capsize worldwide a time out down Havasu Canyon some days earlier, while first and foremost of August 20-year-old Abel Joseph Mejia fell over the Pipe Creek Fail to identify that many visitors come to for photographic views of the canyon.

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NPS urges caution among a couple of dangers in well known areas

With a separate string of warmth-related casualties both inside of the Grand Canyon and other parks known for extreme summer temperatures like Death Valley, the NPS has been urging visitors to exercise caution around quite a few dangers — now now not only the usual slipping hazards but also underestimating how hot parks near the border with Mexico can get from May to September.

“The arid, sparsely vegetated environment here implies that rainfall quickly generates runoff this is because ground doesn’t soak up it well," NPS spokesperson Rebecca Roland said to news outlet The Hill recently. “This runoff moves all of a sudden through narrow canyons and steep terrain, turning dry streambeds into torrents of water within minutes, even from relatively small storms."

In the case of warmth, the NPS recently issued an announcement saying that hiking in extreme temperatures “can trigger off serious health risks including heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hyponatremia, and death.”

The general recommendation is to bring one liter of water for every hour spent on a hike and to plot to have even more if hiking worldwide high heat (even supposing it ends up saddling one with extra weight.)

“Take into accout that efforts to help hikers will likely be delayed at some stage within the summer months as a consequence of limited team of workers, the collection of rescue calls, employee safety requirements, and limited helicopter flying capability worldwide periods of extreme heat or inclement weather,” the federal government agency said in the same fashion.

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