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A college student visiting the Grand Canyon died after an accidental fall near a scenic overlook, park officials said Thursday. Abel Joseph Mejia, 20, fell to his death Wednesday, roughly a quarter of a mile from Pipe Creek Overlook, the first vista along the park’s South Entrance Road, the National Park Service said in a news release. A report of a fall was called in at 10:40 a.m., the agency said. Rangers found Mejia’s body 400 feet below.
“His absence will be deeply felt by all who knew him,” the school said. According to National Park Service data, there were 205 fatal falls across the entire park system from 2014 to 2019, the most recent year for which data is available. The service identified all of the deaths as unintentional. At Grand Canyon National Park, which millions of people have visited annually for decades, 14 died in the same period.
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