Woman found dead in Zion National Park during hiking trip with husband - The Washington Post

The National Park Service, Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner are inactive investigating the origin of death, the NPS said. A hunt squad recovered the pistillate by the Virgin River successful the Narrows, the slimmest conception of the Zion Canyon and 1 of the astir fashionable areas successful Zion National Park. First responders recovered the pistillate nonresponsive and administered exigency assistance earlier declaring her dead.

Rescue workers took her hubby to the Zion Emergency Operations Center aft they recovered visitors assisting the antheral connected Riverside Walk, a paved way that leads from Temple of Sinawava, a earthy amphitheater and shuttle stop, into the Narrows. Visitors alerted Zion National Park shuttle drivers Wednesday that an injured antheral and a nonresponsive pistillate needed assistance successful the Narrows. Other radical contiguous tried to springiness the pistillate CPR.

The antheral told the parkland officials that helium and his woman had conscionable begun a permitted 16-mile travel done the canyon the time before. In the morning, NPS said, the hubby went to get assistance portion his woman stayed successful the couple’s resting spot. Temperatures successful Zion Canyon were successful the 40s and 30s connected Tuesday nighttime and Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

The calamity follows the decease of different hiker, 29-year-old Jetal Agnihotri, who died successful the Narrows this summertime during a flash flood. She was recovered successful Virgin River aft a multiday search. On the Zion National Park website, hypothermia is 1 of the listed information concerns for visitors. “Immersion successful h2o is the quickest mode to suffer assemblage heat,” the website says.

Additionally, “conditions are ever changing, truthful earlier you statesman your hike successful the Narrows marque definite you are alert of the day’s upwind forecast and flash flood potential,” the Zion National Park website says. “Hiking successful the stream is precise unsafe erstwhile flash floods threaten.”

Hypothermia is caused by prolonged exposures to acold temperatures, starring to dangerously debased assemblage temperatures. It is astir apt to hap successful utmost cold, but tin besides hap successful chill temperatures if idiosyncratic becomes chilled from sweat, rainfall oregon staying successful acold water. Hypothermia tin travel connected rapidly, and a unfortunate whitethorn not announcement it is happening.

Symptoms see stumbling and mediocre coordination, uncontrollable shivering, fatigue, disorder oregon slurred speech. If you announcement immoderate of these symptoms, Zion National Park recommends you should halt hiking and rapidly alteration bedewed covering with adust clothing.

“Warm the unfortunate with your ain assemblage and a lukewarm drink, and structure the idiosyncratic from breezes,” the Zion National Park website says. “A prewarmed sleeping container volition besides forestall further vigor loss.” To forestall hypothermia, it recommends to debar wearing fabric clothing, which does not supply insulation erstwhile wet, and eating “high vigor nutrient earlier you are chilled.”

According to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, excessive acold presents a greater menace to beingness than excessive heat, with acold deaths outnumber heat-related deaths successful conscionable astir each year. The U.S. Forest Service says it is liable for astir 85 percent of outdoor recreation fatalities.