Culture Three YouTubers die after going over a waterfall. - Logan Paul reportedly on his way to gawk at the corpses.

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Three members of a YouTube travel blogging collective have died after falling over a waterfall in Canada.

Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were part of High On Life, who post videos of their travel adventures.

The group said: "They were three of the warmest, kindest and most driven and outgoing people you could ever meet."

Police said the trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in British Columbia on Tuesday when they "slipped and fell into a pool 30m (98ft) below".

Other members of the group, who have 1.1 million followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the three on their memorial fund page and in a tribute video.

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They said: "There are truly no words that can be said to ease the pain and the devastation we are all going through right now."

According to the Vancouver Sun, the accident happened when Scraper slipped and fell, with Gamble and Lyakh also getting swept away as they tried to save her.

High On Life are based in Vancouver and were formed by Gamble, Lyakh and another high school friend, Parker Heuser, after they travelled the world in 2012.

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They decided to turn travel and video production into a full-time job and often promoted brands and destinations in the pictures and videos they posted from exotic locations.

Their Facebook page says: "High On Life is the attitude to embrace all of life's opportunities with a positive outlook and energy."

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In one of his last Instagram posts, Gamble, spoke about the things we can all learn from "our younger selves".

He wrote: "Life isn't about responsibilities, tough decisions and hard work, it's about feeling bliss and living in the moment."

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So heart broken and stunned to hear about the passing of Ryker, Alexey from @sundayfundayz along with Alexey's girlfriend, Megan. We watched High On Life for inspiration when we were just starting..so much love, joy and adventure. May they rest in peace <3

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Last year, Gamble, Lyakh and another group member, Justis Price Brown, were banned from US federal land for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other crimes at parks across the western US.

In a statement released on Wednesday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they had received a call about three people swimming in one of the pools at the top of Shannon Falls, about 36 miles (58km) north of Vancouver.

"The individuals were with a group of friends when they slipped and fell into a pool 30 metres below," they said.

They added that teams had "worked throughout the day to complete the complex recovery of all three people from Shannon Falls" and that the file had been given to the coroner's office.

The British Columbia Coroners Service said on Friday they were in the early stages of the investigation.

An official confirmed the three were in their 20s, though Gamble's age has been reported as 30.

The Shannon Falls region and its old growth forests are an increasingly popular destination to visit in the province.

The waterfalls themselves are among of the tallest in British Columbia, reaching 1,009ft (335m) at their highest point.

In the wake of the tragedy, officials are warning people to be cautious in the area.

"Areas like Shannon Falls have very polished granite, it's very slippery with the mist and the lichen and etcetera that builds up around there-going in or near those pools has great risk," John Wilcox with Squamish Search and Rescue told radio station News 1130 on Wednesday.

"It's a very unfortunate circumstance hopefully we can all learn from."

This is what happens when you go swimming in stupid places, kids.

 

[Red Hood]

British Columbia?

Sorry I only have condolences for tho t's that happen in AMERICA.

 

[DuckSucker]

How do you even pronounce "Lyakh"? Lie-ack? L-yak?

Glad I'm not giving a speech at their funeral. That would be embarrassing.

They brought along Lyakh because they couldnt afford a kayak, in a move that would prove to be a fatal mistake.


Sorry for the dad jokes.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Hey, they died doing something far more interesting and fun than I will when I die, namely laughing at niggers and trannies.

 

[thejackal]

That group, as a whole, is known for being absolute shitheads at various parks.

They shit up campsites, annoy other parkgoers, and go off-trail (Often into specifically forbidden areas).

It's no surprise that they went off-trail here too. But swimming in those falls is a special type of stupid, as is diving off of said falls after someone.

Triple Darwin awards here.

You gotta be really fucking stupid to hang out in one of these areas in the PNW. The rocks have literally been polished for hundreds of thousands of years by the water and are incredibly slick. Furthermore most PNW waterfalls are in rugged terrain with (as the case here) only a small ledge separating you from a sheer drop. This isn't some little waterfall like in the Shire or some shit but is basically a cliff with water flowing down it.

Picture from the top looking down:

Youth and all that but even youth should know better than this. Wonder how much the rescue attempt cost the taxpayers up there.

edit: so they were in their late 20s and early 30s? Yea, not even youth anymore. Fully grown brains doing stupid shit.

Also, as noted, having a hard time mustering a lot of sympathy for these people:

Last year, Gamble, Lyakh and another group member, Justis Price Brown, were banned from US federal land for five years after pleading guilty to walking on a sensitive hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and other crimes at national parks across the west of America.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

 

[BScCollateral]

There's a book called Death in Yellowstone. I don't want to be in the same county as a hot spring.

And yeah, ignoring a posted sign will get you killed in all sorts of interesting ways.

 

[Gar For Archer]

There's a book called Death in Yellowstone. I don't want to be in the same county as a hot spring.

Hot springs aren't really dangerous if you're not an idiot and just stay out of them.

That said, one of the most horrifying deaths I've read about is some guy who jumped into a hot spring to rescue a dog. Reportedly, when he was pulled out, he had third degree burns across his entire body and his skin just sloughed off from basically being boiled alive.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

why couldnt it be the logan brothers.

Cockroach power.

 

[NSFW]

LOL

 

[millais]

Kind of ironic that these Vancouver Youtubers were famed for traveling the globe, but they ended up dying in basically their own backyard.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Who the fuck is dumb enough to swim in a waterfall?

Most people are bright enough to swim in the pool at THE BOTTOM of the Waterfall. Those that aren't soon learn better.

 

[Nobunaga]

The cold waterfall challenge

The dragon challenge
If you manage to swim up a waterfall you will become a dragon
See how long until morons kill themselves trying to climb a waterfall

 

[Dragon Face]

The dragon challenge
If you manage to swim up a waterfall you will become a dragon
See how long until morons kill themselves trying to climb a waterfall

This tickles my dragon side.

 

[omori]

High on Death

For real though, I have zero sympathy for people who ignore hazards and walk off designated paths in national parks.

 

[millais]

Most people are bright enough to swim in the pool at THE BOTTOM of the Waterfall. Those that aren't soon learn better.

Those areas at the bottom can be just as dangerous. I used to live near some waterfalls that were the site of a number of drowning deaths over the years due to people swimming in the pools beneath the water falls. The sheer force of the falling water can scour out a very deep pit in the riverbed at the base of the waterfall. The movement of large volumes of falling water from the surface down into the deep pit then creates a powerful underwater vortex that sucks debris and swimmers all the way into the bottom of the pit. At some point it got so bad they had to put up signs with diagrams explaining the whole mechanism because swimmers could not believe there was such a dangerous vortex lurking beneath such a calm looking pool of water. Even then, one guy drowned while swimming there in spite of all the signs, just a few weeks after he moved into town.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I read this at work today and it made my day. A much more lenient death for them than the Yellowstone hot springs would have been too. Don't do dangerous stuff without proper preparation, kids!

edit: Totally beaten on the hot springs thing, apparently. Just like their bodies surely were by that waterfall.

 

[BScCollateral]

Hot springs aren't really dangerous if you're not an idiot and just stay out of them.

You're right, of course; I'm just exaggerating.

That said, one of the most horrifying deaths I've read about is some guy who jumped into a hot spring to rescue a dog. Reportedly, when he was pulled out, he had third degree burns across his entire body and his skin just sloughed off from basically being boiled alive.

Right, that one was also in Death in Yellowstone.

Given that they tried to catch her going over the falls, odds are they would have jumped in after her too.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

Oh, excellent. Those that don't respect nature will be consumed by it.

 

[Slap47]

You can't know how many people die in hot springs because they literally dissolve in hours.

Waterfalls might be a different story.

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

Are Darwin awards still a thing? These guys make a pretty strong case for the 2018 one.

 

[toilet_rainbow]

They should’ve unlocked the Waterfall HM first

Who the fuck is dumb enough to swim in a waterfall?

My immediate thought reading the headline was that Devil’s Pool in I think Victoria Falls and someone finally falling out of or over it. I don’t know how dumb you’d have to be to want to do that, let alone figure that out in the first place.