Woman dies after falling from 60-foot cliff along popular Smoky Mountains trail

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A 65-year-old pistillate reportedly died aft falling from a cliff astatine Great Smoky Mountains National Park connected Saturday, according to parkland rangers connected Monday. 

The cliff, located successful Tennessee, was astir 60 feet precocious and sat on the fashionable Alum Cave Trail, section outlet WJHL reported. 

Rangers responded Saturday aft receiving reports that a pistillate had fallen, but officials with the parkland said they were incapable to resuscitate her, according to the outlet.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is 1 of the most-visited nationalist parks successful the country, spanning remote, rugged, and mountainous terrain on the North Carolina–Tennessee border.

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Views of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are seen successful Tennessee, United States connected November 10, 2018. (Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

As 1 of the park’s astir fashionable routes, the Alum Cave Trail offers a 4.6-mile circular travel hike that winds past the Alum Cave Bluffs and done Arch Rock.

The National Park Service’s website warns that the way becomes precise steep and leads to Mount LeConte, 1 of the highest peaks successful the Smokies, which draws millions of visitors each year. 

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The entranceway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is viewed connected October 18, 2016 adjacent Cherokee, North Carolina. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Just a time earlier, connected Friday, 2 parkland visitors were hospitalized aft monolithic boulders slammed into their conveyance during a abrupt rockslide, the Charlotte Observer reported, citing the National Park Service.

The tremendous slabs reportedly tumbled past a unsighted curve on a winding roadworthy and heavy damaged the beforehand extremity of the vehicle.

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Visitors beryllium connected Mt. LeConte successful the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, April 22, 2009. (John D. Simmons/Charlotte Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Despite sustaining superior injuries, some victims are expected to survive, the outlet said.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for much information.

Bonny Chu is simply a Digital Production Assistant astatine Fox News Digital.

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