 Image caption More than one million visitors made the journey to Machu Picchu in 2014 alone 
 
 The body of a German tourist has been recovered from a ravine after he fell while visiting the ancient site of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. His body was removed from the mountainside and taken by train to a morgue in Cusco on Thursday night, according to Canal N. 
 
 The German’s death was the latest in a long string of accidents suffered by tourists as they posed for photographs in scenic locations.  German tourist dies on Machu Picchu June 30, 2016 Flor Bojorquez Tragedy strikes for a German tourist visiting the mountain of Machu Picchu. (Photo: El Comercio) 
 
 Oliver Park, a 51 year old German, died after falling into an abyss with a depth of 100 meters while visiting Machu Picchu in Cusco.
– It wasn't quite death-by-selfie, but it wasn't far off. Peru This Week reports that a German tourist died Wednesday while posing for a photo at Peru's famed Machu Picchu site. Oliver Park, 51, went into a restricted area of the mountainous tourist locale in the Andes, despite warning signs and instructions from wardens, reports the BBC. The news agency says that while posing for a photo at the edge of a ravine, Park apparently decided to jump in the air to make it look like he was flying. Instead, he ended up falling off the cliff. A witness gives a slightly different take to TV station Canal N, as translated by the Washington Post: "He asked a man who was there to take a photo of him," recounts the Peruvian tourist. "The man came over to take the photo and in the moment he was handing him the camera, he lost his balance and fell.” Both accounts agree that Park had ventured into an area of Machu Picchu, home to an ancient Incan citadel, that's supposed to be off limits to tourists. His body was recovered Thursday. (In 2014, Machu Picchu was plagued by streakers.)