Hiker Dies of Heat Stroke on Utah National Park Trip to Spread Dad’s Ashes

A 66-year-old man from Texas is believed to have died from heat stroke while on a trip to Arches National Park in Utah to scatter his father’s ashes, his sister told San Antonio Express-News. Last week, the park issued an attempt to locate James Bernard Hendricks and later found his body off-trail nearby, officials said in a news release. 

An investigation into his death by the National Park Service and local police remains ongoing, but his sister Ruth Hendricks Brough said park rangers presume Hendricks died from a combination of heat, high altitude, and dehydration. 

According to Brough, her brother’s water bottle was empty when rangers discovered him. “He was a person who spread joy to every living thing he met, and to him, all the universe was alive, from human beings to fossils to stardust. It was all precious to him,” she said. “He was loved by countless people because he was an unusually kind, sweet person who made friends easily. Now all these people are grieving. 

It was a horrible shock.” NBC News reported that temperatures surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the area around the time Hendricks went missing.

Via: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dies-heat-stroke-trip-spread-dads-ashes-arches-national-park-rcna98845

Missing Man's Remains Finally Found—Inside a Shark

 

The remains of a missing man were found in the stomach of a 5-foot shark early Sunday morning, according to authorities. Fishermen off the southern coast of Argentina were cleaning out a school of sharks they had scored when they found human remains that were later identified to be those of Diego Barría, authorities said. The 32-year-old father had been missing since Feb. 18, when he was last seen riding his all-terrain vehicle near the coast in the Chubut province. Two days later, authorities found the damaged vehicle but no signs of Barría. Authorities say it is unclear exactly how Barría wound up being eaten by a shark, though he may have been somehow dragged into the water as a result of an accident while on the ATV.

Via: https://www.foxnews.com/world/fishermen-find-remains-missing-man-inside-shark-argentina