A 57-year-old woman died while hiking the Grand Canyon Sunday amid high temperatures. Temps this week in the area have reached well over 100 degrees.
this week after trying to hike eight miles, the National Park Service said.
A park ranger found the woman at 1 a.m. on July 3 and pronounced her dead on the scene. An investigation is underway to find the exact circumstances of the woman's death. "The trails themselves, they're very exposed, there's just virtually no shade," Joëlle Baird, public affairs specialist at Grand Canyon National Park."It’s a very remote and rigorous trail normally, but then you add of course the excessive heat warning the park was in and temperatures in the shade that are well over 100 degrees."
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