A tragedy.
As Curry's widow Rima tells the newspaper, this kind of dangerous hike was par for the course in their 29-year marriage.
"He had talked about Death Valley for at least a week or more," the hiker's 76-year-old widow said. Though she'd voiced concerns about the temperatures recorded there in recent weeks, Curry insisted on going — and did so without telling his wife, who had been expecting him home that night. "I thought, ‘That rascal. He just took off because he knows it’s hard for me to let him go,'" she added.
Curry apparently got the outdoors bug after marrying Rima in 1994, and would set up a tent in his own backyard or hike up Mt. Lukens, a San Gabriel mountains peak near his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sunland-Tujunga.. "That was his joy." That Curry completed his round-trip hike from Death Valley's Golden Canyon to Zabriskie Point is some comfort to his widow, she's still devastated.More on extreme heat:
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