Tourists risk being boiled alive by illegally walking right next to huge Yellowstone hot spring

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Two tourists came within metres of being boiled alive after illegally walking right next to a huge hot spring in the US.The pair were caught on Sunday approaching Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, much to the fury of onlookers nearby.Water temperatures in the spring can reach 88C, making any contact potentially fatal.Tanya Saueressig, a resident of Livingston, Montana, saw the incident unfold while visiting the park with a friend.She had been standing on the Grand Prismatic boardwalk at roughly 7pm on what had been an otherwise calm and enjoyable evening."It was a really nice crowd," she told Cowboy State Daily.

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People on the boardwalk were being lovely, giving each other space, and being quiet.

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It was a really nice experience."Ms Saueressig was taking a final look at the spring when she noticed movement across the vast microbial mats."I stopped in my tracks and was like: 'Is that people?

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Nobody's that dumb,'" she said.It was indeed two women,...

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