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Jul 22, 1996 · In July 1996, a family of four German tourists disappeared into the wilderness of Death Valley. Egbert Rimkus (34), his son Georg Weber (11), Egbert’s girlfriend Cornelia “Conny” Meyer (28), and her son Max Meyer (4), vanished, seemingly into thin air. Their van was found, three months later, on Monday, October 21, 1996, in a remote ...
Here is a sort of TLDR from wikipedia: Mahood speculated that, while vacationing in Death Valley on 23 July 1996, the family, short on time and wanting to visit Yosemite National Park on their way back to Los Angeles, attempted to take a shortcut to Yosemite on a route whose difficulty they underestimated.
TIL that on April 29, 1945, one day before his death, Hitler had doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, Hitler's dog, who died as a result.
Death Valley in summer can be a formidable experience, especially backcountry travel. Even experienced desert travelers with well equipped vehicles may give second thought to such an idea. At the time the Germans vanished in Anvil Canyon, the following temperatures were recorded near the park headquarters at Furnace Creek:
Death Valley is a National Park U.S. state of California. It is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in North America. [1] [2] It is a desert southeast of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Death Valley is a part of the Mojave Desert. It is the most important part of Death Valley National Park.
Tom Mahood's theory, which makes pretty good sense to me, is that the Germans decided to walk toward a military base (China Lake Naval Weapons Station) on the Death Valley map they had obtained. It looked like a reasonable distance on the map, and based on what they would have known of European military bases they figured there would be regular ...
