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A Georgia woman went over a railing at a popular state park
overlook and plummeted 250 feet to her death — and witnesses
said she was talking to a ranger right before the fatal fall.

Nancy Moore Smith, 58, of Blue Ridge, died Thursday at Tullulah
Gorge State Park, where game wardens and paramedics from two
counties responded following a report of someone who fell from
Overlook 2, according to a statement by the Georgia Department
of Natural Resources.

"The first responders located the deceased female at the bottom
of the gorge and Habersham and Rubun County personnel rappelled
into the gorge and used long lines to recover the victim," DNR
officials said.

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The agency’s Law Enforcement Critical Incident Reconstruction
Team is investigating the incident — including via interviews of
witnesses and Smith’s relatives — to determine if it was
accidental or an intentional act, DNR spokesman Mark McKinnon
told The Post.

"It is undetermined at this point," McKinnon wrote in an email.

It’s unclear if Smith was with anyone else at the time, McKinnon
said.

The approximate height of the overlook where Smith was standing
prior to her death is 250 feet, he said.

Habersham County Emergency Services Director Chad Black told the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the initial report
indicated someone had fallen or jumped from a ledge.

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Witnesses at the park, however, reportedly saw Smith cross over
a railing prior to her death. She was talking to a park ranger
when she jumped, NowHabersham.com reported.

McKinnon said he could not confirm nor deny that report.

"Witness statements are part of the ongoing investigation,"
McKinnon wrote in an email. "If that is true, the investigation
will show it."

The two-mile gorge at the 2,739-acre state park boasts "one of
the most spectacular" canyons in the eastern US and is nearly
1,000 feet deep. Visitors can hike trails along its rim to
several overlooks or walk a suspension bridge 80 feet above the
bottom, according to its website.

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Karl Wallenda, founder of The Flying Wallendas, performed a high-
wire walk across the gorge in a daring July 1970 feat that
included two headstands. Visitors to the park can still see the
towers he used during the stunt, according to the park’s website.

This story first appeared in the New York Post.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-plunges-250-feet-georgia-state-
park

Comments:

ChairmanXoBiden
1 day ago

Very tragic for the woman and her family and for AOC as well.
AOC claims that she also almost fell over the railing in Georgia
due to the incident, despite being hundreds of miles away.

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