For hikers in the American Southwest, this searing hot summer has been an exceptionally dangerous one.
A woman never finished her trek along a remote trail last month in the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Altogether, national and state parks have reported at least seven possible heat-related deaths so far this summer, as a brutal heat wave has baked the Southwest.
Data on hiking fatalities is spotty, and officials caution that causes for the recent deaths have not been confirmed.
But the deaths would appear to be the most for the months of June and July in at least a decade.
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American, Texas, Arizona, Death, California