NEW YORK CITY (AZFamily) — At 32 years old, Evan Dishion was in the prime of his life. He was a doctor, a new father to a 3-month-old baby girl, and a marathon runner before dying from heat stroke while on a hike with friends two years ago.
His widow, Amy, wants others to know that the heat can kill and no one is immune. She wishes he was still around to watch their daughter Chloe grow up.
She shared her late husband’s story Wednesday at New York Climate Week, a global event that brings people together to discuss the effects of climate change.
“I had four miscarriages leading up to her,” Amy said. “It just breaks my heart that he’s not here to see it because he would be just, he wouldn’t even be able to take his eyes off her.”
Her life changed forever on Labor Day in 2022. Her husband and five other guys ventured on the Spur Cross Trailhead in Cave Creek, but it didn’t take long for things to go wrong.
“They ran out of water, they lost cell service, oh and they got lost,” Amy said.
It was nearly 110 degrees on that September day, and the whole group had to be rescued off the mountain.
Amy remembers feeling helpless as the hours passed, and she couldn’t reach him.
“And then I got that call and I just started screaming,” Amy said. “We always said that we were going to live to be 100 and we were going to die on the same day.”
The couple had been living in Phoenix for three years, and Evan was a neurology resident at Barrow Neurological Institute.
He was active and loved the outdoors. Just a few months before his death, he ran the Los Angeles Marathon.
“It can happen to anybody that’s the thing,” she said. “It’s so preventable.”
Amy’s grief fuels her advocacy. She urges others to think twice before hiking in the extreme heat.
“Really, stop and think like is it worth your life,” she said. “It’s too late for Evan to learn from that mistake, but it’s not too late for other people.”
She says if he had brought more water, turned around at the first sign of trouble, and had a GPS tracker or a hiking whistle to signal an emergency, he could be alive today, showcasing why those safety measures are so critical.
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