Woman plunged 260 feet to her death after trying to take a selfie at Grampians National Park
Dec 14, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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A 38-year-old woman lost her life on Saturday 12 December when she fell at Boroka Lookout in Victoria, Australia. The tragedy occurred when she reportedly climbed the security fence to take a photo, slipped, and plunged 80 m (260 feet) to her death.
Rosy Loomba was a mother of two from Craigieburn, Melbourne. This Saturday, she visited the Grampians National Park in Victoria with her husband and two children. According to the reports, she climbed the safety barrier to get to the bare cliff on the lookout. It’s not clear whether she was taking a photo or posing for one, but does that even matter? Either way, the mindless act was done for the photo’s sake, and sadly, it ended tragically.
This isn’t the first time a person died at this exact spot. In 1999, a 59-year-old British tourist died after he slipped and fell at exactly the same spot. And according to the locals, there are always people pushing their faith at the Boroka Lookout. One guy even did a backflip in 2018 (and of course, he filmed it). Stunts like this even urged the police to issue a warning last year for the people to stop taking “selfish selfies.”
Carlee Vokes, manager of Halls Gap restaurant Paper Scissors Rock Brew Co, said that he had witnessed many accidents at the lookout in recent years. “I’ve worked here for 10 years and unfortunately these incidents (people falling) are quite regular,” she told Daily Mail.
While stories like this are certainly tragic, they serve as an obviously much-needed reminder that no photo is worth risking your life. After all, security fences are there for your security, just as the name suggests. So, let them secure you from getting hurt or killed at dangerous places.
[via Daily Mail, News.com.au]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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25 responses to “Woman plunged 260 feet to her death after trying to take a selfie at Grampians National Park”
It says in the article “its not clear if she was taking a photo or posing for one”.
Misleading headline.
Sad for her and her family that she chose to hop the safety barrier though. The barriers are there for a reason.
Gayle Bevan In some articles “selfie” is reported, and in others someone else was taking a photo of her. But either way, it’s a photo of her. And either way, it’s tragic…
“Selfie” has become a synonym for “photo”, regardless of who is taking it.
Howardo Mansfieldio my understanding of selfie is holding the camera or phone yourself and taking an image with myself in it. Perhaps it means different things in different countries.
Ended in tragedy in this case, and that’s very very sad.
Dunja Đuđić it is indeed tragic.
Its hard to feel sympathy due to arrogance and stupidity, warning signs are put there for a reason chose to ignore them, well sorry suck it up cant even feel for the husband as he let her do it, was he taking the photo or just encouraging her arrogance and stupidity.
The should have sign on that fence that says:
“Beyond this fence, the law of natural selection will step in.”
I applaud people’s insistence on cleaning the gene pool.
Michael Stevens Have you looked at this World lately? They are not doing as good of a job as you think!
I know. We should be encouraging more of this behavior!
Did she get the picture though?
Safety barriers are there for a reason.
…doing what she loved…
What ignoring the warning signs, breaking the rules, or is it her arrogance or maybe her stupidity I’m a bit confused on what part of cliff diving did she love, or was it going over the edge while the husband takes the photo.??????
People are just desperate to feel important.
I’ve come to the same conclusion: folks just want to be ACKNOWLEDGED as special in a world that pretty much seems to go on and on without recognizing or valuing them.
To answer the OPs question…When they hit rock bottom? …too soon?
The perfect selfie the one her children will never forget, problem here is the only picture the kids will never forget is her going over the edge, but it is a new one for the indians as we always seem to get a few drowning each year do we now have to add cliff diving, arrogance and stupidity a deadly mix it might be safer if they remained in india just a thought.
First, I find it grossly irresponsible to glorify the sort of senseless and dangerous behavior you purport to warn against by showing it in a video.
Second, fix this error. “In 1999, a 59-year-old British tourist died after he
slept…”
Plus make sure to put the proper date for this….. December 11 was not on Saturday.
I suppose it wouldn’t be dissapear if the make up exist
Sorry, don’t see it as a tragedy. Sad for the family that watched it unfold but it is just pure Darwinism. It is all there, place, fence, chance, ignorance. They rolled the dice. You lose now move along. There are so many things in a life we cannot control. Of those we can we are 100% responsible for. The tragedy is that if there was someone there that could of said “Don’t”. The article does not go so far as to say anything about that….the dice were rolled.
What year is this news item?….. December 11 was not on Saturday.
In Australia it was….;)
Culling the Herd!