(MARQUETTE, MI.)–A California woman who died in the fall at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has been identified. Officials of the National Park Service said 32-year-old Tu Thanh Nguyen from Sunnyvale, California, slipped and fell to her death. Nguyen was hiking by herself on the North Country Trail and she stopped about a half-mile east of Grand Portal Point to take pictures of herself, when she fell about 200 feet off the cliff edge to Lake Superior. Two kayakers who were able to retrieve her and bring her to shore near Chapel Beach witnessed the fall. A local kayak company radioed for emergency services for assistance. Several units responded to the scene including the National Park Service, Alger County Sheriff’s Office, Alger County EMS, and the U.S. Coast Guard personnel responded in a coordinated recovery effort. Upon arriving on the scene, park rangers, along with Alger County paramedics, confirmed that a 32-year-old California woman died as the result of a fall.
(Aaron Harper,WJNR,WOBE,WHTO)
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