Park rangers have found a severed human foot in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. The foot was in a shoe and swam on the surface of the hot spring Abyss Pool, which is around 60 degrees, the park administration said Friday. The previous investigations pointed to a no-fault accident, it said.
In this context, the park administration repeated the request not to come near the thermal springs. Visitors are only allowed to go near the warm water on the designated paths and walkways. The ground at the hot springs is thin and can crack, and there is boiling hot water below the surface.
More and more accidents in the national park
The foot that has now been found is under further investigation. According to current knowledge, the find could be related to an accident on the morning of July 31 near the Abyss Pool.
Accidents happen all the time in Yellowstone Park, the oldest national park in the US. In 2016, a young man died after slipping on a jetty and falling into the thermal waters of Norris Geyser Basin. In 2021, two park visitors had to be treated for burns after coming into contact with the water.
Yellowstone Park stretches over 9,000 square miles between the US states of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. In 2021, 4.8 million people visited the nature reserve, which is home to thermal springs, mud pools and about half of the world’s active geysers.
Source: Krone
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