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Health issues prevented the women, who were in their 80s, from climbing out, officials said. They became unresponsive after overheating and developing hyperthermia.
By Adeel Hassan
A friends’ trip to a remote cabin in the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky nearly turned deadly, local rescuers said on Friday, after two women took an extended soak in a hot tub and developed hyperthermia, the opposite of hypothermia, in which the body is overheated and cannot cool.
