rescuers reached the tourist took it to a local police station .
( 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 .
german tourist dies on machu picchu june 30 , 2016 flor bojorquez tragedy strikes for a german tourist visiting the mountain of machu picchu .
a day earlier , a south korean 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 .
the tourist , identified by the bbc and peruvian media as 51 - year - old oliver park , died wednesday after slipping from a ledge and falling approximately 130 feet .
the police informed that the remains of the german tourist will be taken to a morgue in the city of cusco .
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 .
visitors take photos with their mobile phones at the inca citadel of machu picchu in the peruvian andes on dec. 2 , 2014 .
( enrique castro - mendivil reuters ) a german tourist has died while trying to take a photo atop machu picchu .