On Sunday, a woman died while hiking in the Grand Canyon. Temperatures in the area were well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit with extreme heat warnings.
A site within Grand Canyon National Park has been renamed Havasupai Gardens from Indian Gardens to honor a tribe that has called the area home for generations. According to officials from Grand Canyon National Park, at around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, a park ranger received a report about a hiker needing help in the Tuweep area of the park.
“The trails themselves, they're very exposed, there's just virtually no shade,” Baird said. “It’s a very remote and rigorous trail normally, but then you add of course the excessive heat warning the park was in and temperatures in the shade that are well over 100 degrees.” “The actual area is very hard to access,” Baird said. “Prolonged times for search and rescue are not uncommon in this area. Especially when you couple that with the fact that there were a lot of unknowns at the time.”
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