2023-06-27 02:41:43
Marupo Vega Trail in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. [사진 출처 = 미국 국립공원청]
An accident occurred in which a man in his 30s and his teenage stepson were killed while hiking in a heat wave in a national park in southern Texas, USA.
According to the US National Park Service on the 26th (local time), an emergency call was made to Big Bend National Park, Texas, at 6:00 pm on the 23rd.
A 31-year-old father from Florida and his two stepsons, aged 14 and 21, called for help while climbing the Marupo Vega trail in the national park at 48 degrees Celsius.
When the younger son fell unconscious on the trail, the father returned to the vehicle to seek help. The eldest son tried to move the younger brother to the starting point of the trail.
But when National Park Rangers and U.S. Border Patrol officers arrived at the scene at 7:30 p.m., the younger son was already dead. Afterwards, the crew went on a search to find the father, and regarding 30 minutes later, they found that the vehicle he was riding had crashed down the slope of a nearby mountain trail. The father was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
The Marupo Vega Trail, where the accident took place, is in the hottest part of Big Bend National Park and is a route through very rugged desert and rocky cliffs. The park management explained that it is a dangerous hiking course in midsummer as there is no shade or water.
“Currently, temperatures are rising above 43 degrees every day along the Rio Grande River and throughout the Big Bend Desert region,” the park official said.
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