White Sands National Monument, N.M.: Tourists from France die while hiking

Posted on September 9, 2015 • Filed under: Tourists Die, United-States

cnn.com reported a French couple who died while hiking in a New Mexico desert on a 100-degree day may have kept their 9-year-old son alive by giving him extra water rations, Otero County Sheriff Benny House said.

Ornella Steiner, 51, and David Steiner, 42, of Bourgogne, France, were found dead last week off a hiking trail in White Sands National Monument, a vast and treeless desert park about 226 miles from Albuquerque. Read Article

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