cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1427367
Archived version: https://archive.ph/p1rSg
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230814011105/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66495043
Thanks for the meters.
Damn, wish I was young
This is some me_irl or awkward penguin kinda shit, damn
Politely steps out of the way of a photo…
…Into the literal Grand Canyon.
I’m glad he’s okay.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It took rescue crews two hours to pull Wyatt Kauffman to safety on Tuesday after falling off a ledge at the popular tourist site’s North Rim.
Wyatt told a local television station he had fallen while moving out of the way so people could take pictures.
He said he had been squatting down and holding onto a rock with one hand when he lost his grip and started to fall back.
“After the fall, I don’t remember anything after that,” he told Phoenix television station KPNX while in hospital.
Wyatt was pulled to safety by a team from the Grand Canyon National Park, who rappelled down a cliff after deciding a helicopter rescue would not be possible due to the terrain.
“We’re extremely grateful for the work of everyone,” said Wyatt’s father, Brian Kauffman, who was home in North Dakota at the time of the accident.
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Wyatt was pulled to safety by a team from the Grand Canyon National Park, who rappelled down a cliff after deciding a helicopter rescue would not be possible due to the terrain.
If this were a plot point in a movie, I would have called it a contrived excuse to have the heroes scale a rock wall.
Among his injuries were nine broken vertebrae, a ruptured spleen, broken hand and a collapsed lung. […] “We’re just lucky we’re bringing our kid home [to North Dakota] in a car in the front seat instead of in a box.”
… I’m not sure that’s the best way to transport someone who was just diagnosed with nine broken vertebrae.
I was thinking there must be younger siblings in the back, so he had to travel in front. But now I realize both parents were there, so that means one of the parents is in the back seat…
I think they meant that they will drive him home in the front seat. The article seems to be written within the same week as the accident, I can’t imagine he’s been released from the hospital yet.
