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DEATH VALLEY, California — A 71-year-old man died Tuesday after hiking in temperatures that were above 120 degrees and just hours after he had been interviewed by a newspaper reporter about the excessive heat.
The National Parks Service says in a news release that Los Angeles resident Steve Curry collapsed outside the restroom at Golden Canyon in Death Valley National Park just after 3:30 p.m. Other visitors who saw Curry called 911, but emergency workers with the park service and the Inyo County Sheriff’s Officer were unable to save him, despite performing CPR and using an automated external defibrillator.
A helicopter could not be sent to the site because of the extreme heat, the parks service says.