@BhargavRao, actually, I can just copy-paste the answer from the link, but I think that this question can be also marked as a dupe of the question I refer to. However, I'm not sure... â Ilya V. Schurov Dec 2 '14 at 13:00.
First barrel ride down Niagara Falls. On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898.
Nevada man falls to his death at Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon officials were alerted that a man had fallen to his death from a rim trail east of Mather Point at about 4:20 p.m. Thursday. Rescuers recovered the body of a Nevada man Friday who fell about 400 feet to his death off the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Juan Carreras-Soto, 29, of Las Vegas was visiting Grand Canyon National Park when he fell over the edge at about 4:20 p.m. MST Thursday, National Park Service officials said.