FOX 13 Investigates: Hikers pay deadly price on Zion's Angels Landing trail

38 thoughts on “FOX 13 Investigates: Hikers pay deadly price on Zion's Angels Landing trail”

• 641 hikers a day for 200 days a year due to weather multiplied by 10 years = 1,282,000 hikers and 12 have died. Seems safer than driving down the highway 🤯

• Keep fat and stupid influencers off of it

• People who don't evaluate risks properly… ruining it for everyone else?

• People risk their lives to have bragging rights. It's not about challenge, it's all about ego.

• One thing I can agree is that this place gets to crowded. They should do a permit system. And rangers should strictly enforce these permits. They should only allow 200~300 people per day.

• fuck you nate. what kind of journalism is this?

• ❤️

• Dame 12 hundred feet is a long way

• Shutting down the trail is definitely not the solution. People have the freedom to do dumb shit, and that includes difficult, scary hikes without the proper skills or experience. That is their decision, so they also inherit the consequences.

• You talking about it and possibly banning it makes it a bucket list hike. These "men" are pu****s tbh talking about quotas or banning the trail.

• Don't close trails. Let people take the risks they want.

• if you stick to the trail and dont try to do anything stupid-you wont fall. There are always people to try to pass hikers on the outside of the chains-

• They probably should have a permit system for this (Like Mnt Whtney and countless others)…but instagram lifestyle is still going to kill people even with a permit, just less. Zion already has lots of competitive permit hikes. People see a dangerous photo and recreate it.

• Let’s see, 641 a day x 365 = 233965. 13 have died and let’s pretend they all died in the last 365 days that’s 0.0000556% . Any statistician will tell you that number is insignificant. Looks to me like someone wants to dictate who can enjoy our national parks. How Liberal minded of them.
  Covid math is now the standard.

• We should close roads, to many car accidents. I have done the trail twice, proceed at your own risk or stay home!!!

• Let's line the rock walls with rubber and put up railing on every cliff! Or, just close the parks from people since the news sees this as worthy of a story, because people are never responsible. Dumbass FOX story. Yeah CLOSE IT! Take away everything because people are not allowed to die because they can't manage themselves. So dumb. The solution is dumber than the people falling. Nate Carlisle is a jackass apparently?

• 13 deaths over 20 years of averaging 641 hikers per day is a death rate of .0003%. Slow news day in Utah, Fox 13?

• The real news coming out of Utah is the utter devotion to an assclown that used two stones in a hat… and then the millions of weak minded minions that believe it. There is some news. Real news…sky fairy news. Whackadoodles.

• fuck that risk management dude lmao

• Not much if you compare that to school shootings.

• What happened to personal responsibility?

• lol

• Deaths on this trail is nothing more than Darwin at work.

• 1:35 Doesn't have to always increase? It's not like the number of deaths will ever decrease.

• I would be all for a permit system. The most stressful part is hiking back down when there are lines of 20 people coming up the same chains you're trying to go down. Nobody communicating on the little landing spots between sections and all the sudden you have tons of people shoulder to shoulder trying to get opposite directions. The views were amazing but the crowds honestly ruined it for me. I'll only return in the offseason

• "Why don't we close the trail all together?" !? Instead of asking each other shouldn't you ask the people of USA?

• We don’t close cities when 100,000+ murders/ other deaths/injuries happen each year… why close nature when less than one person per year dies on said trail.

• So by the math on this video 4,913,265 hikers and 13 deaths. I'm all about making it safer, but this seems pretty safe to me.

• It's super easy. The problem is the users not the trail.

• its people like you I dont need anywhere near NPS system.
  Permits is a good idea, and people are aware of the danger.
  "WHY NOT CLOSE ANGELS LANDING ALL TOGETHER???"
  Are you kidding?

• the trail needs rail all the way so people can clip in on caribeners– if they fit– or at least rope in!

• how about we keep it open and people go at their own risk?! just because other have died on this trail doesn't mean close it down just put a sign hike at your own risk.

• Agree with the comments on here. Hikers know the risks. Should be up to them to decide. We don't need weenie risk managers deciding what we can and can't do.

• Darwin can be very harsh.

• What can be done? Solution: Just don't do it

• Good. It is a good natural way to weed out the careless.

• This hike is amazing and seriously easy. Please stay far away from any mountain if you can’t successfully complete this. Closing nature for those of us who behave responsibly is absurd. For that matter, what a trash story. Fox 13 should be embarrassed 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

• As for me, I don't have to worry about being one who will fall off that trail. That's because you won't get me to even go near it!

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