Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 67-year-old David Stein of Pennsylvania, USA.
According to reports from police, Stein along with his wife Robin Eisman departed along the Boiling Lake trail about 7:45 AM on Thursday 20, February 2025.
They were accompanied by tour guides and at about 11:00 AM while en route to the Boiling Lake, Stein purportedly slipped off a narrow area along the trail and fell 30 feet, sustaining head injuries.
He was transported to the Dominica-China Friendship Hospital (DCFH) and pronounced dead.
Whether it is a bucket list to do item or a thrill seeking adventure, tackling the Boiling Lake trail will push the fittest of seniors close to the brink and edge.
At 67, one’s endurance, reflexes, reaction time and strength are not what they used to be. Sometimes we just have to acknowledge Father Time, and in this case Mother Nature.
It is only by God’s grace that there are not more of these unfortunate mishaps!!!
We don’t need guard rails – they are more dangerous because they give a false impresssion of safety when they themselves are undermined by erosion. What we need are fully paid, dedicated maintenance teams that walk these trails daily and widen, maintain, clear, and repair tracks. This is how world class hiking trails are managed. The government of Dominica has done absolutely nothing to manage hinterland trails in years. They dont even talk about the National Trail any more because it is in such poor condition. They talk a good talk – that’s all. Dominica needs to appoint a trail manager with experience and enthusiasm and give him/her a budget. But that will never happen.
That guy is always using people’s misfortune to play blue politics.He always feel good when something bad happen in Dominica,and he play like he sorry.Then he put in his politics.Wicked demonic and tormented soul.
@Clown Lin, you Red wicked soul, it’s time that President Trump fling you back to Dominica to sing a New Song…
If it is correct that he slipped off a narrow path, falling about thirty feet sustaining head injuries; and died, rather than police investigating what seemed obvious!
I think that time should be spent on doing an autopsy, to see if there are some other reasons (sickness) that contributed to his death.
Some people at high altitude usually lose their equilibrium, and fall!
Some people vertigo issues, can cause them to lose their balance at high altitude falling, resulting in death.
This is another sad situation, and so my sympathy goes out to his family.
In conclusion, if the path is narrow and dangerous, a guard- must be immediately installed in order to avoid or visitors from suffering the same fate!
The missing words should read, guard-rails should be installed where the path is narrow, in order to protect others from slipping and suffering the same fate! The following comment I am directing to the person who mentioned erosion: if indeed soil erosion is likely to undermine basically the guard-rails, one could argue also that soil erosion is likely to cause the entire path, (road) to wash away.
The only resolve is guard-rails, or deviate, detour from the original trail by cutting a new trail!
“According to reports from police, Stein along with his wife Robin Eisman departed along the Boiling Lake trail about 7:45 AM on Thursday 20, February 2025.”
So with all that information revealed by the police what exactly they are still investigating?
Are they just worried that another foreigner, this time an American, has lost his life in Dominica at a time when the authorities are working overtime with their crooked and corrupt judicial and state employees, to free an American friend of the government and a passport sellar, who alledly brutally killed to
Canadians here?
Gason when in was an elementary student we use to play/ sing a little rhyme that went like this ” it runs it runs through the hand the more you watch the less you see, won’t you pass it unto me…”
At the same time my granny always use to say the more you try to hide the more your nakedness is exposed. Please cross the dots if you want to interprete.
My condolances to his family, especially to wife…
The millions spent on the tram
car, christmas market, sewo, destroying Canrits National Park and fertile farmland in Wesley could be better spent securing our trails and shoring up our crumbing infrastructure.
Never an uneventful day in Dominica. There is always at least an event that makes the headlines.
Safety on these trails should be of paramount importance. Guard rails should be erected in specific places to avoid accidents. The country is getting too many black-eyes because of human error or negligence.
Profound condolences to the family of the dearly departed.
I hear you my bro but sadly the authorities just don’t care. All they are concerned about is their pockets while the country goes to hell in a hand basket. Just listen to 90% of the calypsos this year and you will see how bad things are. But the good thing is the US victim’s family will definitely file a lawsuit due to the condition of the trail, medical response etc.
The bad thing is an already struggling treasury will have to find money to pay……yes they will settle quickly because the tourists must keep coming. So, any negative press on that combined with the Bois Cotlette matter must be silenced by any means necessary. Aye Dominique!