chilling photo, clueless parents

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2757928/Photo-shows-moment-family-allows-baby-crawl-edge-Pulpit-Rock-mountain-ledge-Forsand-Norway.html

This is the shocking moment a baby was allowed to crawl perilously close to the edge of a steep cliff in Norway so that her parents could snap a keepsake photograph.

Dressed in a pink outfit and cap, the young child was accompanied by four adults, who were at least a few feet away from her, and would have faced certain death if she had rolled in the wrong direction.

Hiker Fred Sirevag, who snapped the chilling photo on Saturday afternoon, said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he encountered the scene as he made his way up to Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock), a steep cliff that has a 1,982ft drop.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wow, anything for a Facebook Mobile Upload thingie, eh?

Unwise, to be kind.

Negligent, to be sure.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. that is some rock

[NYC_SKP]

3. This particular view confirms the hazard present in the shots in your OP.

Lest anyone come along to say, "well maybe there was a ledge just out of sight."

Um. Nope.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

4. I was wondering about the ledge out of sight possibility.

I've taken pictures in Yosemite that look like someone is about to fall a great distance, even though there was a ledge/shelf not visible from the camera. But the picture from below removes all doubt.