Tourist is slammed for disobeying no entry signs to sit up on dangerous ledge overlooking Grand Canyon

A radical of tourists are being slammed for disobeying nary introduction signs connected a unsafe ledge overlooking the Grand Canyon. 

Park ranger Sarah Anderson spotted a radical of young girls maneuvering implicit a motion which said 'do not enter' and venturing crossed the borderline of North Rim Grand Canyon. 

She watched successful daze arsenic the radical launched into a bid of yoga poses portion watching the prima spell down successful the off-limits area. 

Anderson shared footage of her disappointing brushwood with the societal media radical 'Tourons of National Parks', which highlights and mocks visitors' idiotic behavior. 

It showed the motion the radical disobeyed, earlier panning crossed to a pistillate sitting connected a ledge overlooking the canyon. She aboriginal clarified the young pistillate wasn't alone.

Anderson said: 'It was a radical of young adults, this miss was doing yoga moves close earlier this. They were each determination watching sunset, but evidently breaking rules.'

Viewers expressed their vexation with the group's actions.

One idiosyncratic wrote: 'When I visited southbound rim, astir of my anxiousness came from seeing radical doing worldly similar this. I thought for definite determination was going to beryllium a death.'

Another wrote: 'How astir this sign: “Enter astatine your ain risk, decease and wounded are possible, you are liable for each rescue costs.”'

Falling is the fig 2 origin of decease astatine the Grand Canyon. From 2007 to 2023, 40 deaths person occurred from falls - an mean of 2.4 each years, according to the Grand Canyon's authoritative website. 

Two months agone a tourer plummeted to his decease astatine the Grand Canyon. Abel Joseph Mejia a 20-year-old assemblage pupil of Hickory, North Carolina, accidentally fell 400 feet aft hiking disconnected way astatine the Grand Canyon.

Hickory was recovered by National Park Service workers 400 feet 'below the rim' of the Pipe Creek Overlook astir 10.30am connected August 1. 

 'Mr. Mejia was adjacent the borderline of the rim erstwhile helium suffered an accidental fall,' NPS said.

Grand Canyon National Park spokesperson Joelle Baird told AZ Family that Mejia was hiking off-trail, 'which is simply a beauteous communal spot occurrence for a batch of our visitors here.'

The National Park Service, which is presently investigating the death, reminds parkgoers to 'always support a harmless region of astatine slightest six feet (2m) from the borderline of the rim and enactment down railings and fences astatine overlooks.'

Turning Point Pentecostal Church said successful a Facebook station that Mejia was connected a 'missions trip' erstwhile the fatal autumn occurred.