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Dangerous Alaska White Water kills again
https://craigmedred.news/2018/08/06/water-kills-again/The growing Alaska sport of packrafting has tragically added to the number of drowning victims in America’s largest national park this year.
Officials in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve along the U.S.-Canada border in Eastcentral Alaska today reported 22-year-old Austrian Aidan Don died in the Nizina River late last week.
His death follows on the heels of that of two Missouri hikers swept away by the Sanford River and killed in the heart of the park in late June.
(Alaska has killed a couple of tourist this year...)