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A man hiking in the Grand Canyon has died after being found unresponsive over the weekend, marking the third death in the national park within the last three weeks.

A 50-year-old unresponsive male hiker was found on the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon about 100 feet from the trail head on Sunday, according to the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center.

Bystanders began CPR while emergency personnel responded to the scene, but efforts to resuscitate the hiker were unsuccessful.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think it's more dangerous for those of us from out of town/state, as the lack of humidity means you don't sweat (or at least the same) so by the time you know your thirty it's probably to late. I visited Arizona like 10 years back in like April and it was insanely hot already, and we kept an emergency case of water in the trunk of the car (on advice from a family member living there) and anytime we did any hiking we had camel packs and water bottles too as backup because we knew you had to just keep drinking.

It was funny though because Sedona was like the middle of a really hot summer in the north east, but they had ice in parts of the canyon still.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There was snow on the North[?] rim while it was really hot on the other rim. Such a surprise when we got to the other side of the canyon!

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yup. Me and some friends hiked it from rim to rim several years ago (staying at Phantom for a few nights as a break).

There was snow on the rims and we were wearing jackets when we started but we too were surprised to find it in the upper 70s at the bottom of the canyon.

The heat difference in the Canyon was wild - even of a night. This was September the year we went. I couldn’t imagine trying it in mid July.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

as the lack of humidity means you don't sweat

Wtf? That's not his that works

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 1 points 2 years ago

I meant that with a high, or even "normal" humidity level you know when you are sweating. In that Arizona sun the air is so dry that you never feel sweaty, it instantly evaporates, but being so hot it also doesn't act to really cool the body as intended. So it feels like you're not sweating, potentially leading some to push harder not knowing how dehydrated they actually are until it's too late.

I think of it like the boiled frog, only instead of boiling in water you are slowly losing water you don't even feel leaving you.