One Family's Desperate Attempt to Survive in the Scorching Desert | The Death Valley Germans Story

The story of the “Death Valley Germans,” which took place in July 1996, is a very sad and disturbing story of misadventure in California’s Death Valley, one of the hottest places on planet Earth. The group of four German tourists disappeared without explanation in an area near Anvil Canyon and the only clue was an abandoned minivan with its contents. After a search over a few days, the authorities were unable to locate the missing Germans, and the operation was called off. However, 13 years later, two volunteer searchers, Tom Mahood and Les Walker, finally discovered partial remains thirteen years later in 2009 in an isolated desert location many miles to the southeast of the minivan. Finally, the mystery of the German Tourists in Death Valley was solved.

0:00 Introduction
0:34 Death Valley
1:28 1996 Investigation and Search
7:34 The Mahood search in 2009
9:24 What happened to the Death Valley Germans? (Mahood Theory)
17:58 Locating the remains
20:09 Outdoor Disaster's Theory On the German's last days
24:30 Conclusion/Survival Tips

Much of this video is just a dramatic retelling of Tom Mahood's excellent blog. If more in-depth details about Mahood's search, please check out his blog.

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