The strange story of the disappeared Germans in Death Valley

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This is a lengthy tale into an investigation some people carried out on their own into solving the riddle of a German family that vanished near Death Valley & was subject to all sorts of conspiracy theories about being kidnapped by the military for straying too near top secret bases, alien abduction & all other manner of kookish ideas.

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/searc...roduction/

I never knew much about how bad Death Valley's reputation was for its extremities of temperature until I read this, & it was good to see that one of the results of this case has been the positioning of a mobile phone mast so people who are stranded can be quickly geolocated when they call for help from cell phones so this sort of tragedy will never happen again.