The body of a 20-year-greater woman was recovered in Grand Canyon National Park, labeling the third death in one week, the National Park Services (NPS) declared.
According to a press free from the NPS, Leticia A. Castillo, 20, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, first went ignoreing Aug. 3, after go ining the national park.
Authorities discovered her body Tuesday, 150 feet below the Canyon’s Tthrive Oversees after a multiple-day search.
A photo from the scene showed Castillo’s body being airlifted by a helicchooseer. Her body was transferred to the Coconino County Medical Examiner’s Office, the agency shelp.
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Park rangers recovered the woman’s body, tardyr identified as 20-year-greater Leticia Castillo of Albuquerque, N.M., which was discoverd approximately 150 feet below the rim. (National Park Services)
A cousin of Castillo’s posted on Facebook recalling the 20-year-greater for “weightlessing up any room.”
“Leti, words can not convey how much you’re going to be ignoreed,” Alexis Hernandez wrote on Facebook. “I cherish you so much Prima, and I will always appreciate all the times I got to spfinish with you. You would weightless up any room you walked in.”
A base jumper wearing a thrivegsuit. (Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images)
Castillo’s death labels the third one at the well-comprehendn tourist destination spot this week and the eleventh death this year.
On July 31, Abel Joseph Mejia, a 20-year-greater from North Carolina who was visiting on a ignoreion trip with his church, when he stumbled over the edge of the South Rim. He fell 400 feet to his death.
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On Aug. 1, a man died when he fell 500 feet during a BASE jump at the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon is seen in Grand Canyon Village, Ariz., at the Yavapai Point. (Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An NPS appraise of deaths in national parks between 2014 and 2019 set up that hiking was the second-deadliest recreational activity behind driving, while drowning caengaged the second-highest number of unintentional deaths after motor vehicle crashes.
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