Yellowstone Park employee dies after fall from Grandview Point
A Yellowstone National Park employee died Friday morning after falling from a view point above the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River.
Estefania Liset Mosquera Alcivar, 21, fell from Grandview Point, according to a news release from Yellowstone National Park. Alcivar was a concession stand worker and was standing with co-workers
when she fell over the edge of the rim trail at about 3 a.m.
Park rangers and paramedics responded and had to wait to locate Alcivar's body until daylight. They determined the fall was not survivable and recovered Alcivar's body just after 10 a.m.
Alcivar was born in Quito, Ecuador, and was in the U.S. on a work visa.
The incident is under investigation by the National Park Service, and visitors are urged to use caution when walking on rim trails.
The woman's death is part of a summer of unfortunate incidents at Yellowstone.
An Oregon man died at the park in June when he walked off the boardwalk at Norris Geyser Basin, slipped and fell into a hot spring.
Earlier that month a 13-year-old boy was burned when his father, who had been carrying him, slipped into a different spring.
In May, a Canadian film crew was accused of leaving an established boardwalk and stepping into a fragile geothermal area where they snapped photos and took video of themselves.
Also that month, another Canadian man loaded a bison calf into his SUV because he thought it was cold. The calf later had to be euthanized because it could not be reunited with its herd.
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