Despite the efforts of park rangers to reach his body by carefully traversing the delicate geyser basin crust, they eventually had to halt their attempts. The situation was just too challenging and futile to continue.
From Sky News:
A spokeswoman from the park said: "They were able to recover a few personal effects. There were no remains left to recover."
Mr Scott's death occurred in one of the hottest and most volatile areas of the park.
It comes after a number of incidents in which tourists have left the designated path.
"It's sort of dumb, if I could be so blunt, to walk off the boardwalks not knowing what you're doing," said Professor Kenneth Sims, a member of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
"They're scofflaws [a person who flouts a law] essentially, who look around and then head off the boardwalk," he said, adding he was talking generally, not specifically, about Mr Scott's situation.
Mr Scott himself was described as "a very nice young man, a bright spirit" by a former manager.
At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the park since 1890.
Let this unfortunate incident be a lesson for all of us: don't stray from the main path, especially not at Yellowstone...
