SALT LAKE CITY --  They left their two young children with relatives and set off to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary at one of the most beautiful hiking destinations in the Southwest.

Months earlier, the luck of a draw had brought Anthony and Elisabeth Ann Bervel coveted hiking permits for The Wave, a region of richly colored sandstone patterns near the Utah-Arizona border.

But just hours into Monday's trek, 27-year-old Elisabeth Bervel died of cardiac arrest, becoming the third hiker in a month to succumb to the brutal summer heat and disorienting open country where no marked trail shows the way.
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Failure to plan is totally preventable. It amazes me how many people go places without a compass.

But I have to wonder what kind of health she was in. She must not have been terribly fit to go down that fast.

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This is really sad, they leave behind 2 kids without parents.