Originally Posted By: Mark_R
Originally Posted By: unimogbert
Not sure why they were given up on when temperatures were HIGH.

Cold, sure, but high temps shortening survival? In the woods where there is shade? and likely water?

If I read the article right it was only 6 days.


Even with shade, 40C (104F) is well into heat stroke territory. Thankfully, the couple had enough sense to stay put, in a lean to, near a water supply.


Yeah there are heat advisories all over the globe
and lots of folks don't know how to cope
and lots of governments and news outlets don't warn people adequately

Consider this story I saw the other day
Karachi heat wave claims over 1,000 lives in Pakistan ... 44.8 degrees Celsius (112.64 degrees Fahrenheit)
Stench of death in Pakistan should shame government
Opinion: Pakistan's heat wave: When fasting is a sin
in india last month death toll had risen to 2,330. The highest maximum temperature recorded on was 47 C or 116.6 F
2015 Pakistani heat wave
2015 Indian heat wave


In california I've often heard of employers being fined by Cal/OSHA for failing to provide water to workers (construction, farm workers)


Its easy to see how rescuers are less than optimistic,
by their average experience searching for six days might have been extremely optimistic,
people perish in heat waves even when they're not lost,
they just don't know what to do
or are just too poor.