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A woman hiking in the Grand Canyon fell to her death on Friday, the national park reported. The body of colleen Burns was discovered by rangers around 400 feet below where she had been hiking. The location, Ooh ahh point is well-known for its views and has an elevation of 6,660 feet. USA TODAY
An Orlando woman fell off of the edge of the Grand Canyon when making room for hikers to pass.(Photo: Michael Quinn, NPS)
(NEWSER)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>– The last photo Colleen Burns<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
posted to Instagram<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shows her sitting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. "That view tho," she captioned it. Hours later, the 35-year-old fell 400 feet to her death when she slipped off a ledge Friday morning.
Park officials announced her death Monday, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
AP<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports. "She was, like, stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately Colleen just kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon," a friend who was with Burns on the sunrise hike tells<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
WESH. "That was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life."
Burns, who was a regional marketing director for Yelp in Orlando, fell from Ooh Aah Point, about a mile down the popular South Kaibab Trail. Rangers found her body about 400 feet from where she fell, and the local medical examiner's office says she died from "multiple blunt force injuries."
CNN Money<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reports Burns had worked for Yelp since 2009. "To say we're heartbroken is a severe understatement," a Yelp spokesperson tells the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
Orlando Sentinel.
Burns' mother tells<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
People<span style="color: Red;">*</span>magazine the heights shown in the last photo her daughter posted scared her so much "I shut down my computer. ... And then the next day we lost her." She recalls her daughter's last words to her, said the day before she arrived at the Grand Canyon: "Mom, I'm content in my life. ... I want to travel and see the world."
(Another hiker fell to his death at the Grand Canyon<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
last year.)
This story originally appeared on Newser:
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