A woman has suffered a fatal fall at the Grand Canyon National Park after veering off a trail and plummeting nearly 200 feet, park officials confirmed.

The 70-year-old woman fell Tuesday near the South Rim inside the national park. Her death marked the third fatal fall at the historic US landmark in recent weeks, while the cause of another person’s death in late-March remains under investigation.

The woman had reportedly been walking about 200 to 300 feet (60 to 90 metres) off a trail along the South Rim about a mile east of Mather Point.

Park rangers got a call just after 1pm that she needed help west of a popular overlook called Pipe Creek Vista.

“She fell before we could undertake a rescue,” said Grand Canyon spokesman John Quinley, adding thatCanyon Google Ever wanted to see the Grand Canyon? No need for a flight, thanks to Google meteorcrater-google.jpg The Meteor Crater in Arizona Google

Mr Quinley said the woman fell between Mather Point and the starting point for the South Kaibab Trail, two well-known and highly visited places at the park’s more popular South Rim.

The park’s helicopter and rescue team recovered the body.

The woman’s name was being withheld until her family can be notified. Park officials didn’t immediately release the woman’s hometown.

On 3 April, a 67-year-old California man fatally fell 400 feet (122 metres) from the edge of the South Rim in Grand Canyon Village, near the Yavapai Geology Museum.

A tourist from Macau, China, also fell to his death on 28 March. The man was trying to take a