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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The heat stroke theory makes the most sense to me. One member of the part gets in severe trouble first, there's some panic about what to do that's probably impacted by the other adult or both adults being on the way to trouble themselves and not being able to think straight or having no good options, and all of them are doomed.

Heat stroke can be really fast. If you want to see it in action, look up Caleb Reynolds on Survivor, which I think you can see on YouTube. He goes from moving around doing intense physical activity for a challenge one second, to being collapsed on the ground the next, unable to move and unresponsive and gasping for air. One of his teammates gives him water but he isn't able to drink and he was beyond that anyway. Prior to that there were zero signs that he was in any kind of trouble. The production team only managed to save his life because they were able to radio for a Medevac chopper and had a skilled medical team and supplies like chilled IV saline and oxygen to keep his vitals from tanking while they waited.

Like a PP, I also thought of the Death Valley Germans. Hopefully here we will be able to get more answers as by the time any sign of the Germans was found, 13 years had passed and most of the clues and remains were gone.

It also made me think of David and Ornella Steiner, a French couple who died at White Sands National Monument a few years ago. They went hiking on a 101-degree day on a trail that was half the length that this family apparently went on, with their 9-year-old son. Ornella started feeling ill and turned around to go back to the car, and collapsed and died on the way. David and the son continued on but then David collapsed as well and from the son's account later had been acting increasingly bizarre and confused himself. The 9-year-old didn't know what to do so stayed with the dad on the side of the trail. Unlike the couple in this story, they were hiking in an area with regular NPS patrols so while both adults died, the rangers managed to find the 9-year-old in time to save him. It turned out later that the parents had been more attentive and careful to their child's water consumption than their own which was probably why he survived.

People underestimate nature all the time and get themselves in big trouble. I think that's probably what happened here as well.[/quote]

Just read about White Sands. I’m glad there are signs up warning people.  But geez all these heat deaths makes me think we should close places like this when the temperature is very high. With big signs warning people of the danger. I hike casually and had no idea about how quickly and severely heat exhaustion can come on. [/quote]

No one else ran across this couple. The vast majority appear to have common sense. [/quote]

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