A 35-year-old woman fell to her death at the Grand Canyon, hours after she posted a photo of herself sitting on the edge of a cliff.
Colleen Burns was hiking the South Kaibab Trail on Friday with two friends when she stepped aside to make way for another hiker and then lost her balance, according to one of the friends, Jessica Roman.
Colleen, a marketing director from Orlando, Florida, was at the edge of Ooh Aah Point when she fell backwards off the edge.
Park rangers found her body 120m below.
She had uploaded a chilling photo the night before to her Instagram, with the caption: “That view tho (sic)”.
Her mother, Catherine, told People magazine she’d been worried after seeing her daughter’s photo because she herself was afraid of heights.
“I saw the last photo she posted before she died, where she is looking at the canyon, and it put a chill through my body because I’m afraid of heights and I was afraid for her,” she said.
“I shut down my computer because it freaked me out so much. And then the next day we lost her.”
Such a tragedy.
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