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National Parks Service: Smart Wildlife Watching Protects People
DailyMail.com 10/23/20 Reckless Tourists Get Too Close To A Herd Of Bison Yellowstone Park, Sparking A Stampede That Rumbled The Earth, By Dan Avery (The Comments Are Worth Reading)
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WorldAtlas.com 8/1/20 How Bad Tourism Affects Wildlife Around The World, By Steph Wright
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Irene Pastore, is a Certified Personal Trainer, fitness blogger, health educator, and speaker. She has 23 years experience teaching exercise in New York City. To read her complete bio, visit the About Page.
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Irene Pastore, is a Certified Personal Trainer, fitness blogger, health educator,
and speaker. She has 23 years experience teaching exercise in New York City.
To read her complete bio, visit the About Page.
Not Funny
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New York Times 8/4/18 The Deadly Waterfall In The Instagram Age, By William Shannon
ABC News.com, 9/6/18 – Teen Falls To Death While Trying To Take A Selfie At Yosemite National Park: Reports, By Julia Jacobo
FOX News.com, 9/22/18 – California Woman Hiking In Michigan Falls To Death While Taking Selfie: Officials, By Madeline Farber
The Washington Post 10/3/18 – More Than 250 People Worldwide Have Died Taking Selfies Study Finds, By Allyson Chiu
ABC News.com 3/10/18 – Selfie Accidents Range From Silly To Deadly All Around The World, By Josiah Bates
CNN.com 9/29/20 – An Oregon hiker fell off of a cliff to his death while posing for a photograph, By David Williams
Newsweek, October 30, 2018 – Yosemite National Park Deaths: Travel Bloggers Killed In Fall From Taft Point Overlook, By Ewan Palmer
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: Trip Planning Resources For Hikers and Backpackers
Irene Pastore, is a Certified Personal Trainer, fitness blogger, health educator, and speaker. She has 23 years experience teaching exercise in New York City.. To read her complete bio, visit the About Page.
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NYTimes.org Pandemic Wilderness Explorers Are Straining Search and Rescue, By Ali Watkins 4/8/21
BostonGlobe.com Six charts Show The Most Common Reasons People Need Rescues 11/18/16
FoxNews.com National Park Searches, Rescues Costing Millions, Figures Show, By Amy Lieu 8/14/18
BioOne.com Dead Men Walking Search and Rescue In US National Parks, By Travis Heggie, and Michael E. Amundson 9/1/2009
Treehugger.com When Hikers Need Help, Who Foots The Rescue Bill? By Laura Moss, 6/19/19
National Parks Traveler.org Search and Rescue Missions Cost National Park Service Nearly $4 Million in 2013 6/29/14
Adirondack Daily Enterprise.com 80-Year-Old Rescued From Mt. Washington May Have To Foot The Bill 10/18/20, By Michael Casey, Associated Press
NewYorkUpstate.com DEC Rescues: Who Should Pay The Bill For Lost Or Injured Hikers, Hunters?, By David Figura 6/2/19
UnionLeader.com Fish and Game Weighs Charges Against Family That Left 80-Year-Old Hiker” By John Koziol, June 15, 2019
Three National Parks With The Highest Search & Rescue Missions 2017
Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, had 290 S&R missions in 2017.
Yosemite National Park in Wyoming, had 233 S&R missions in 2017.
Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, had 165 S&R missions in 2017.
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A family of four German tourists disappeared in July of 1996 in 
California’s Death Valley.
Several years later their remains were found, leading researchers to believe that they died of heat exposure.
Insufficient preparation, poor decision-making, and dangerous terrain, led to the death of Egbert Rimkus 34, Egbert’s girlfriend, Cornelia Meyer 27, and two children, 4 year old Max Meyer and 11 year old Georg Weber.
The couple drove a rented a vehicle nearly 200 miles over rugged terrain, causing three tires to blow out.
After their disappearance, a four month search and rescue mission turned up their vehicle, and no further clues.
During the following 13 years, what happened to them remained a mystery, until two hikers, Tom Mahood and Les Walker, discovered adult skeletal remains, along with identification, indicating that they left the car behind, and decided to hike.
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NBC News.com, 11/13/09 – Death Valley Bones Linked To German Tourists
LATimes.com 11/14/09 – California: Bones May Solve Mystery: Death Valley Hikers Find What May Be Tourists’ Remains
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