I cannot imagine making ANYONE,  let alone my child,  do something they were terrified of doing.

Absolutely horrendous parents. That poor, poor boy.

Parental narcissism does so much damage around the world. Poor Lucielle. 😢😢😢

To subject the child to that kind of torture is unforgivable

There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

That child , what a tragedy …..The selfishness of the parents cost him his life and whole future ….😢❤

How could you do that to your child. Unbelievable.

Parents who forced their kid into a grueling, dangerous, and scary hike to Half Dome were not sharp enough to understand that they were placing him, and both of them, in mortal danger. Fear shuts down ability to move. It cost them their child's life and their lives. No one was able to push through, including the parents who were pushing their child to do what he was smart enough to understand he didn't want to do the climb. They were not smart enough to listen.

NO is the most important word in any language. No means no. Don't let others take that from you.

Those parents murdered their kid.

That Dellacroix family decisions sounds more like child abuse than working through something.  Parents HAVE TO acknowledge a child's NO

Horribly selfish parents😢

No way i could ever do this. I almost get dizzy just watching the videos!

If my parents tried to force me into climbing Half-Dome, I would consider  them as selfish and uncaring!
To ask that of anyone petrified of heights is just so cruel.

I have a fear of heights because they mean you're very close to death. I can't imagine what the young man went through 😢😢😢

My parents did this to me at the Grand Canyon - down to the Colorado River and back up in the same day.  About killed me - I was 10. No food either cuz my Dad told us there were restaurants at the bottom - mind you - he didn’t know and he didn’t check - he just wanted to get going on the hike. At 15, I told them no more. We’d done primitive hiking in Canyonlands when I was 14. Desert in August - no bathrooms - water from an oasis full of bugs - dinner was always moving. Hiked in 10 miles following Indian-style trail markers. No other people anywhere near us, not on the trail or when we camped by the oasis. There was one picnic table there - that was it. At 15 I’d had enough and put my foot down. I never went hiking again.

The heights on the mountain are terrifying!

These YouTube vids have helped me SO much!

* I taught aqua fitness at an outdoor pool for 1 hour this morning from 9-10 am. The temperature was 71 degrees and rising fast. I was on a white concrete pool deck in full sun. 😎(White pool deck + full sun=heat and sun radiating off the deck to me)
The environment was prolonged exposure to the sun with physical activity (as if someone was in the sun, walking fast, and occasionally jogging for 1 hour).
I started sweating around 9:20, and I felt hotter. By the time class ended, it was 84 degrees. I'd been in the sun for the entire time.

1. ITEM LEARNED: Drink water CONSTANTLY. I use this special water, Waiakea water, which has electrolytes in it. I did drink, but probably not enough, or at least not SOON enough. (I did drink about 1/2 liter of water from 7:45 until 8:15 am this morning before the aqua class.)

2. ITEM LEARNED: When I started sweating more around 9:30 am, I grabbed my cooling towel, dunked it into the pool, and put it around my neck and down my top into the top of my core.

3. ITEM LEARNED: Even though I'd stopped moving so much and got into the shade, the effects of the workout and sun exposure made me feel like my body's heat was rising. I got into my car, turned on the AC, and applied more water to my cooling towel. I also drank more water on the way home.  
THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART- My body felt like it wasn't coming down from the heat: instead, it felt like my body's heat was rising slightly.
My body still felt hot even though my face wasn't red and I wasn't sweating. I used the cooling towel on my cheeks at times.

At 10:48, I finally felt normal, after 25 minutes.
I never got woozy or confused, but I could feel fatigued and thirsty. I continued feeling fatigued for another 45 minutes after I got home at 11 am.
I recognized the signs WAY far ahead, before any more heat stress could affect me.

* 2nd aqua class, same day, 2 pm. Slightly different environment, same potential heat effects.

I taught the same aqua fitness class for 45 minutes in an indoor pool environment. I started class with the cooling towel around my neck!

Due to the humidity caused by the warmer water, the humidity level is 50-60%. When it's a hot day, the heat index with the heat and humidity raises the body's heat index. 92 degrees ambient temperature, 60% humidity, so according to the chart at the website below, my body feels like it's 105 degrees.  ♨
https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex

This is because the body's sweat cooling mechanism slows down because evaporation off the skin slows. 😰

THIS TIME I POUNDED water before, during, and after class!
I felt great afterwards.

I've been watching your vids constantly, and I can automatically and immediately recognize if I'm experiencing heat stress and at what level.
I can also intelligently prepare for different heat environments. 🧠

Heat stress recognition has become automatic for me now, and I thank you, Joshua. :hands-yellow-heart-red:



(PS - by today's standards, I'm considered elderly.) 🧓

The only thing the 4 dudes hiking Death Valley didn't have from the very beginning unfortunately were brains. No brain cell...

Great narrations. Thank you for keeping it moving along. So much suffering for the families and friends left behind. Very sad.