Grand Canyon tourist falls to his death while taking photos 01:20. A man died at the Grand Canyon after attempting an illegal BASE jump — a high-risk parachute leap — from Yavapai Point on the ...

The National Park Service (NPS) announced in a news release that the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a visitor, identified as 20-year-old Abel Joseph Mejia, who ...

College student falls to his death at the Grand Canyon The body of Abel Joseph Mejia, 20, was found 400 feet below the rim, park officials said. Responders manage a high-angle technical rescue ...

PHOENIX — The Havasupai Falls area of the Grand Canyon is closed to outsiders after deadly and destructive flash flooding ravaged the popular northern Arizona tourist site last week. The ...

The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report on Wednesday at approximately 10:40 a.m. that a visitor to the park had fallen from the rim of the canyon a few hundred feet west ...

'We feel deep sadness': 20-year-old falls 400 feet to his death at Grand Canyon Abel Joseph Mejia, from Hickory, North Carolina, "was near the edge of the rim when he suffered an accidental fall ...

Aug. 2 (UPI) --A college student visiting the Grand Canyon is dead after suffering what park rangers described as an "accidental fall." Abel Joseph Mejia, 20, of Hickory, N.C., had been standing ...

Hiking at the Grand Canyon can be deceiving. The temperature at the South Rim, where 90 percent of all visitors go, is about 20 degrees cooler than at the bottom.