Tourist Dies After 100-foot Fall In Glacier National Park

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park officials say a tourist who was taking photographs of the scenery fell into a creek, was swept into a culvert and plunged 100 feet to his death. Park officials said in a statement Monday that 26-year-old Robert Durbin of Corvallis, Montana, died Saturday. They say Durbin was taking photos along Haystack Creek next to the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which is known for its dramatic scenery and vertigo-inducing heights. He fell into the creek and was washed through a culvert that goes beneath the road and empties into a 100-foot drop down a cliff. The popular road was closed to traffic for about an hour while rangers and rescuers found and recovered the man's body. Park officials say the death is not considered suspicious.

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