Hundreds of visitors are being drawn to Death Valley national park, even though the region known as one of Earth’s hottest places is being punished by a dangerous heatwave, which was blamed for a motorcyclist’s recent death
Sheik Mabrouki, from Algeria, walks through Badwater Basin in Death Valley national park. Photograph: Daniel Jacobi II/AP
A visitor poses next to a thermometer at Death Valley national park, near Furnace Creek, during the heatwave in southern CaliforniaA person wipes sweat from their brow at Badwater Basin. Forecasters say a heatwave could break previous records across the USVisitors take a selfie. French, Spanish, English and Swiss tourists left air-conditioned rental cars to take photographs of the barren landscape.
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