Reddit reviews Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

If anyone is interested, there's a fascinating book called Death in Yellowstone that talks about the many ways people have died in the park. This is far from the first time someone's died and disintegrated in a hot spring over there. The heat and acidity tend to do that quite a lot.

There's a few books about how people have died at Yellowstone. I read through one out of morbid curiosity.

http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B009R6HEF2

He knew full well that the water was boiling, and jumped in anyways, but probably didn't know how hot it was and how fast it would kill him. People were yelling at him to not jump before he did, and he replied "like hell I won't!"

He also wasn't blind before he jumped, the water blinded him and basically cooked his eyes in his sockets. He died the next morning.

Sadly they won't make the next edition of Death in Yellowstone. Along with the foreign tourists that put the baby bison in their SUV because it was cold.

Thanks to the internet, the world will now know what little dbags they are. Co-Founder & CEO at High On Life or a narcissistic little attention whore?

Death in Yellowstone is an interesting read. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

In all fairness, I've seen tourists of all nationalities make some life altering stupid decisions in Yellowstone over the years. There is an entertaining book about it (although the author chose to put in a lot of unnecessary political comments) https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&redirect=true&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

This happened quite a bit in Death in Yellowstone. It covers every death in Yellowstone National Park and the details surrounding them. Don't mess with hot springs.


http://smile.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?sa-no-redirect=1

Ooh, fun! I've been trying to think back to what got me interested in crime and murder, because it's always been an interest for as long as I can remember. I'm pretty positive it was Columbine that really got me, though - I was 7 at the time and I found the Newsweek about it on our kitchen table, so I grabbed it at started reading. My dad freeeeeaked out and took it away from me, tried to hide it, and told me that wasn't 'kid appropriate' reading material (which, to be fair, is true... but bby me didn't want to be told that!) so then I went out of my way to find it again, read it all, and I was hooked.

Then when I was a few years older, my sister and I went on a roadtrip with our grandparents to different National Parks in the US, and we were encouraged to get a book at every gift shop. We both chose ones about death ("Death in Yellowstone" is still a nostalgic favorite to me. Reminds me of being a kid. A weird, fucked-up little kid) and it... kind of backfired on our poor grandparents. They wanted to encourage our reading skills, so we would read aloud in the car. After reading about a man being boiled alive in a geyser, we were asked to just read silently for the rest of the trip :'D

And if you enjoyed that, be sure to check out Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

I think people need to take a common sense approach to the hunt. If they get fanatical about it? It's sad but it's also not uncommon. HUNDREDS of people die a year in national parks.

>Between 2007 and 2013, in all 59 parks, there were 1,025 fatalities. On average, approximately 160 visitors per year die while visiting national parks-- out of more 305 million visitors.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/10/21/how-many-people-actually-die-in-national-parks.html

People need to take care and take precautions and not risk their lives for any reason.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009R6HEF2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 is a interesting read

5 people were gored by bison in 2015 in Yellowstone. There has to be a common sense level applied. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/news/teen-gored-bison

While people mentioning Randy as a cautionary tale on why not to hunt (http://www.westword.com/news/forrest-fenn-on-death-of-randy-bilyeu-ongoing-hunt-for-2-million-treasure-8140159) and it ticks me off when they claim to know what happened.... I can not find him faultless. This was not the fault of FF or the hunt. There were mistakes made.

Others have put themselves at risk as well. If we can all not be risky? It can pay out.

One person going "on the hunt" and dying will get more coverage than a slip in fall where there was no railling and they took a selfie in Yosemite. That's the sad truth.

There are a couple of morbidly fascinating books about just this type of thing. Death in the Grand Canyon, which featured one story of a woman trapped at the bottom where there was a trickle of water, but not enough to allow her to stock up for a trip back out. She'd start off, then be forced to turn back.


http://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-Canyon-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/0984785809?ie=UTF8&keywords=death%20in%20the%20grand%20canyon&qid=1463458654&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr


The more gruesome of the two was Death in Yellowstone. Lots of people falling into geysers.


https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

You either have to be in the backcountry or illegally walking off the boardwalk. Otherwise there are fences around almost every feature close to a trail.

Lee Whittlesey wrote a book on the history of people dying.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National-ebook/dp/B009R6HEF2?ie=UTF8&qid=&ref_=tmm_kin_swatch_0&sr=

It is sad, as each death makes it harder for the park service to let people near pools.