[xxqqzz]

There was a German family who died in Death Valley in the 1990s. They apparently took a short cut and their 2-wheel drive van got 3 flat tires. Apparently, it attracts foreign tourists who don't fully understand the dangers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You’d think the name “Death Valley” would clue people in.

[Big Red Badger]

116* ,
At that Temperature minutes
Not Hours is What You Got.
RIP

[Disambiguator]

I drove across Hwy 380 in NM a few years back, through the aptly named “Jornada del Muerto.”

I would hate to get stuck out there.

[Don W]

I love the desert, but some folks don’t believe that it is utterly merciless and indifferent to any needs other than its own.

It declares, in no uncertain terms, that if you mess up you WILL die.

[Repeal The 17th]

Different source from a few weeks ago...
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Stranded in Death Valley amid 116-degree heat, French tourist dies
ktla ^ | 08/23/2026 | Josh DuBose
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4392889/posts

[dagunk]

I go out into the country in Nevada and I say to the environment, “You’ll actually kill me if I screw up, won’t you”? And the land replies, “Yep.”
— Talisker

[Skid289]

I’ve been to Death Valley many many times on group motorcycle trips. Never once even considered going anywhere off main roads. Go out there off the beaten track and death in the valley is a real possibility. They f***ed with the duck and got the bill.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

A guy I used to work with died in the Arizona desert. He somehow got isolated and stranded and when he and his dog went looking for help, that was it.

[Falconspeed]

Pierre Michel Formosa, 68, rest in peace. 116º. Brutal.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

There was a German family who died in Death Valley in the 1990s.

If you search for "Death Valley Germans" there is an extensive story about them. Their remains were eventually found 13 years later(!) by a private citizen who had taken an interest in their fate.

[Old Yeller]

A friend and I drove through the Valley of Fire, near Las Vegas. It was summer and we were in a Jeep CJ-5, with the top off. It quickly was put back up, but it still had no air conditioning. Hot, hot, hot.

[Organic Panic]

I don’t even go to the grocery store without water, blankets, a cook stove, and some MREs. That whole dessert is merciless. Be prepared especially in a place that is designed to kill you.