Evann Gastaldo

Newser

(NEWSER) – The last photo Colleen Burns posted to Instagram shows her sitting at the edge of the Grand Canyon. "That view tho," she captioned it. Hours later, the 35-year-old fell 400 feet to her death when she slipped off a ledge Friday morning.

Park officials announced her death Monday, the AP reports. "She was, like, stepping out of the way for another gentleman to kind of squeeze in, and unfortunately Colleen just kind of got tripped up on her own feet and fell backwards, fell into the canyon," a friend who was with Burns on the sunrise hike tells WESH. "That was the longest, strangest, craziest two seconds of my life."

Burns, who was a regional marketing director for Yelp in Orlando, fell from Ooh Aah Point, about a mile down the popular South Kaibab Trail. Rangers found her body about 400 feet from where she fell, and the local medical examiner's office says she died from "multiple blunt force injuries."

CNN Money reports Burns had worked for Yelp since 2009. "To say we're heartbroken is a severe understatement," a Yelp spokesperson tells the Orlando Sentinel.

Burns' mother tells People magazine the heights shown in the last photo her daughter posted scared her so much "I shut down my computer. ... And then the next day we lost her." She recalls her daughter's last words to her, said the day before she arrived at the Grand Canyon: "Mom, I'm content in my life. ... I want to travel and see the world."

(Another hiker fell to his death at the Grand Canyon last year.)

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Her Last Instagram Showed Her at Grand Canyon's Edge. Then She Fell to Her Death

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