don't go chasing waterfalls?!....3 Youtube Vloggers die.....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....falling from waterfall.....chasing 'danger'...



Three YouTube Vloggers Die In Canada Waterfall Accident

....Three members of YouTube travel vlogging collective High On Life have died after falling over a waterfall in Canada.

The BBC reports that Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in British Columbia on Tuesday when they slipped into a pool 30m (98ft) below.

Other members of the group, who have 1.1M followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the three young adults on their memorial fund page and in a tribute video:

High On Life is described as a clothing and outdoor adventure company whose members are known for creating lively travel video from all over the world.

Last year, Gamble, Lyakh and another group member were banned from U.S. federal land for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other crimes at parks across the west of America.

Vancouver-based Gamble and Lyakh set up High On Life with friend Parker Heuser.


Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.......?!

[Mike Johnson]

Everybody seems so gleeful to share this story. Whatever stupidity led to their death by misadventure, their families are grieving.

[freeradical]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...Oh wait...

[Paul F.]

Mike Johnson wrote:
Everybody seems so gleeful to share this story. Whatever stupidity led to their death by misadventure, their families are grieving.

I'm sure their families saw it coming too...

[RAMd®d]

Everybody seems so gleeful to share this story.

True dat.

A lot of people generally run with their Empathy tank very low.


I'm sure their families saw it coming too...

And I get that give them zero consolation.

[Kraniac]

Of course it's very sad for those folks connected to these people. My compassion or sympathy for the people in this 'group' gets severely diminished by the fact they seemed to feel that they were above the rules..I dont know the details of their doings on Federal Land but it takes some stupidity, arrogance and a general lack of respect to get banned from all Federal land for 5 years.

Putting yourself in dangerous spots.. is dangerous! And it sounds like these folks had a bit of an invincible thing going on. there are many stories that i read online that make my choke up, feel sad about and think about for a long time as they roost. I really cant muster up much emotion here.

[SDGuy]

Hmmm...something seems off on this story - it happened on Tuesday, but she doesn't look like she has brown eyes...

[Paul F.]

Kraniac wrote:
Of course it's very sad for those folks connected to these people. My compassion or sympathy for the people in this 'group' gets severely diminished by the fact they seemed to feel that they were above the rules..I dont know the details of their doings on Federal Land but it takes some stupidity, arrogance and a general lack of respect to get banned from all Federal land for 5 years.

Putting yourself in dangerous spots.. is dangerous! And it sounds like these folks had a bit of an invincible thing going on. there are many stories that i read online that make my choke up, feel sad about and think about for a long time as they roost. I really cant muster up much emotion here.

This... in all the particulars.
They were in the habit of doing things they KNEW were dangerous. Things that were often illegal for that very reason. They were adults, and not coerced into putting themselves into danger.
Do I lament their deaths? Of course I do... Did they "have it coming"? No... But was it a great shock that they might end up being complicit in their own demise? Also, no...

[hal]

This is the first para of the article I read:

Megan Scraper was standing at the edge of the scenic but treacherous Shannon Falls when she slipped into a swift-moving current, authorities in British Columbia said. Her companions, Ryker Gamble and Alexey Lyakh, dove in to save her, but none of them were a match for the power of the rapids. Moments later, all three were sucked beneath the water’s surface, then plummeted over a 100-foot waterfall.

They seem worthy of my sympathy. But news sources know that young kids doing outrageous things gets we oldsters all riled up and click happy.

[bfd]

seems like natural consequences … at least they died doing what they liked doing best even if they were senseless deaths.