A woman died in the Grand Canyon while hiking in extremely high temperatures, park says

(CNN)A woman who embarked on a multi-day backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park died on a trail Sunday, the park said. Delphine Ma...

September 14, 2022
5:10 AM

(CNN)A woman who embarked on a multi-day backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park died on a trail Sunday, the park said. Delphine Martinez, 59, of Window Rock, Arizona, "became disoriented and later unconscious" while hiking along the Thunder River Trail and was not able to be resuscitated, a release from the park said.While the park did not release Martinez's cause of death, it noted that high temperatures in the inner canyon were well over 100 degrees on Sunday. At Phantom Ranch, which lies at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the high temperature reached approximately 115 degrees, the release said.

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