A Belgian woman fell 100 feet to her death while taking a selfie on the edge of a cliff.
Zoe Snoeks, 33, slipped and fell from the cliff edge near the village of Nadrin in the province of Luxembourg on Tuesday, according to a report. A joint team of police, firefighters, scuba divers, and members of the Perilous Environment Reconnaissance and Intervention Group worked together to recover her body from the Ourthe River.
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Snoeks’s husband, Joeri Janssen, explained that the couple headed to the location in their van for its scenic beauty to take pictures.
“Since the pandemic, it was our little thing to drive across Europe in our van and take beautiful photos,” he said.
“We got up very early to take pictures of the Herou,” he continued, speaking about a 4,600-foot-high rock face. “There is almost always mist there. It’s great for photos. We arrived before 9 a.m.”
Janssen said while taking pictures, Snoeks told him to watch out for the couple’s dogs.
“I turned to the dogs and told them to wait. When I turned back to Zoe, she was no longer there. She had just vanished. It must have happened in less than five seconds,” he said. “I didn’t see or hear anything. No rustling, no screams or shouts. I looked up and saw only dust. … I called her even though I knew it was hopeless. The chasm was several tens of meters deep.”
“I immediately called the emergency services but had almost no network. They didn’t understand me, even though I speak a little French,” he explained. He said that he rushed to the nearby Le Belvedere Hotel for help. “The rescue team could not find Zoe immediately, they said in French. Then they told me that, unfortunately, Zoe was dead, also in French, but I immediately understood what they meant.”
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“Taking photos was her passion,” he continued. “I immediately unlocked her phone and saw that she had taken a photo on the cliff edge. Her very last selfie. … Zoe is looking straight ahead. You can also see the mist and the river where they finally found her body.”
