Man dies in Zion National Park

What I'd like to know is why when Park Rangers are called and told there is a couple in the canyon needing help and they don't respond. I was hiking with my friends this very day and passed that couple on the Subway trail. They were an elderly, oriental couple and we wondered why they would be on such a difficult hike. But we figured they knew what they were doing. When we finally finished our hike we ran into a couple waiting for their kids to come out. We told them that they were about an half hour or more behind us and that there was an elderly couple too that they may have been helping. After driving back up to get our other car a couple of my friends stopped back to see if they all made it back. It was dark by then and the parents said they got a text from their kids saying they were alright, but the elderly couple needed help. So my friend called Park Rangers, which basicly did nothing. So very very sad!

So why is it that many people die every year in our NP's, yet the government looks at like "oh well, price of being open". Yet the same government spends millions of dollars a year sealing off and destroying old mines and all the history that goes with it in the name of "safety". More people die in avalanches in one year in Utah than there has been in the last 30 years in an abandoned mine.