Nov. 8 (UPI) -- An elderly man slipped and fell 130 feet to his death while visiting Grand Canyon National Park on Thursday afternoon.
The slip-and-fall death occurred at about 2 p.m. MST, which caused the Hualapai Nation to request help from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office to recover the man's body from a location in Guano Point, NBC News reported.
"A 65-year-old male had slipped and fell over the edge into the canyon and was deceased," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
"Search and Rescue responded and located him about 130 feet down on a scree pile."
A scree pile is made up of loose and broken fragments of rock that collect at the bottom of a cliff.
