A 17-year-old girl died after falling from a 30 feet cliff while hiking in Grand County, Utah.
The teenager was hiking the Moab Rim Trail with a group of friends in the Kane Creek Canyon area around 4:10 p.m. Friday when she slipped and slipped 30 feet off a sheer face cliff, Moab Police said.
Her friends called 911 after desperately failing to reach the girl.
Search and rescue crews rushed to the accident area along with other first responders and used harnesses and climbing gear to rappel down to the teen.
The girl died from the fall by the time they reached her, and rescuers spent the next two hours recovering her body, police said.
It is unclear what caused the girl to lose fall, but Moab Assistant Police Chief Lex Bell told KSL that the girl was “too close to the edge” in a difficult hiking area.
“The Moab Police Department wants to extend our heartfelt condolences to her family and friends,” Moab Police Chief Jared Garcia said.
