Children watch as people sit on Yosemite Valley for Instagram fun | Tech Reddy

An Instagram post by an American tourist has gone viral, showing him dangling his feet over the edge of a narrow ledge in Yosemite National Park, California.

Hawaii-based filmmaker Aaron Eveland captured images from the top of Half Dome, a famous landmark at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley.

The peak is 2695 meters above the California plateau.

In the footage posted on his Instagram account, Eveland can be seen walking on the floor, approaching the end of the small platform.

The video, shot with a selfie stick, features her young children in the background.

It is accompanied by a caption: “Half Dome is not complete without dangling your feet. From this point you can see the ‘Thank God Ledge. rad to do the same way along the my future children. Hopefully we’ll be heading there this fall with some big-time climbs to show for it.”

The video emerged after it was collected by the account @TouronsofYellowstone, showing the questionable behavior of visitors to the US national park. Opinions on the exercise are divided.

Half Dome can be climbed in several ways, and about 50,000 hikers follow the 13km summit route (one way) every year. Half Dome combines the best of Yosemite with a popular hike, according to the local tourism office.

Hikers have been known to queue for up to an hour to access the steel cables on the last leg to the summit.

There have been nearly 290 accidents on the rocky terrain. In 2018, three people died while taking selfies in Yosemite National Park.

According to a 2018 study from researchers affiliated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a group of public medical colleges in New Delhi, more than 250 people worldwide have died from taking their own between October 2011 and November 2017.

Of the 259 deaths, the researchers found the leading cause was drowning, followed by transport-related incidents – for example, taking selfies in front of an oncoming train – and falling from the height. Other causes of personal injury include pets, firearms and electricity.

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