Heat Stroke Death Archives

Heat Stroke Death down Lockley Track in full summer western sun

February 4, 2026

So what fools plan to hike in Blue Mountains mid-summer in forecast high temperatures in the mid-30os Celsius (the mear shade temperature, that is) in scorching full sun? Amateur hour ignorant fools? Or was there else perhaps something more sinister at play between the two hikers? Tragically, one of the two teenagers died of likely heat stroke as a consequence; anyone […]

Basic Hiking Needs lesson from Dr Mosley’s Heat Stroke Death for our Blue Mountains

June 14, 2024

Dr Mosley’s Heat Stroke Lesson Popular television medical presenter Dr Michael Mosley (67) on 5th June 2024 tragically succumbed to heat stroke whilst on holiday hiking solo over a rocky Greek Island ‘Symi‘. We presume that he was an inexperienced hiker. The subject island geographically identified below appears rather closer to Turkey than to Greece, but whatever. The timing was […]