{"id":18319,"date":"2023-09-26T04:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18319"},"modified":"2023-09-26T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:22:00","slug":"woman-falls-150-feet-to-her-death-from-north-carolina-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18319","title":{"rendered":"Woman falls 150 feet to her death from North Carolina cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A woman fell about 150 feet to her death from a cliff in North Carolina over the weekend, the National Park Service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nancy Sampson, 61, of South Carolina, fell down a steep cliff at Glassmine Falls Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway at around 12:15 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rescuers found her about 150 feet below the overlook, and park rangers confirmed that she had &#8220;succumbed to injuries from her fall,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/blri\/learn\/news\/fatality-at-glassmine-falls-overlook-on-the-blue-ridge-parkway.htm\">the National Park Service<\/a>&nbsp;said in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The park service provided no additional details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Ridge Parkway is a long linear park and road along the Appalachian Mountains that spans 469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina. Glassmine Falls Overlook, at milepost 361, and overlooks a tall, skinny waterfall, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/glassmine-falls-overlook.htm\">National Park Service<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/woman-falls-150-feet-death-cliff-blue-ridge-parkway-rcna117160\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman fell about 150 feet to her death from a cliff in North Carolina over the weekend, the National Park Service said. Nancy Sampson, 61, of South Carolina, fell down a steep cliff at Glassmine Falls Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway at around 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Rescuers found her about 150 feet below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152,5780],"tags":[22758,22757,2827,1305],"class_list":["post-18319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","category-livehood","tag-cliff","tag-fall-to-death","tag-north-carolina","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}