An 18-year-old woman fell to her death Thursday near Inspiration Point in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, according to the National Park Service.

The woman, a Yellowstone concession employee on her first day in the park, was hiking the canyon’s North Rim Trail with three other acquaintances when she left the trail and walked onto a loose rock promontory that gave way underneath her, the Park Service said in a news release.

Park rangers responded to a 911 call received at 5:44 p.m. Thursday, reporting that a woman had fallen into the canyon. Rangers, with the assistance of ground spotters and a Teton Interagency helicopter, saw the woman’s body 400 feet below the promontory. Rangers concluded that she had sustained fatal injuries.

Using a helicopter, authorities recovered the body at noon Friday.

The victim’s identity is being withheld until next of kin can be notified.

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