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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Damn. I remember looking at a book at the Grand canyon rim souvenir shop that documented all the hundreds of people who have died by falling into the Grand canyon over the many decades. It's kind of a sobering reality when you stand right on the edge and look down hundreds of feet and realize that it wouldn't take much for your life to end right then and there.

Somewhere a photographer from 20 years ago has a photo of me standing right at the edge probably of this exact same cliff. I still can't believe I did that as I have a severe fear of heights, lol.

Hope the kid gets better and gains a healthy fear of heights after this.

[–] codapine@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I always have this harrowing thought every time I was there (I lived in AZ, it was a once-every-few-years sort of affair). I have a memory of my Dad posing for a picture there, right where there's an ankle-high wall leading to certain doom. He didn't fall, but it wouldn't take much and it gives me such Call of the Void vibes looking at that photo.

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