Anna got herself a classic case of
heat exhaustion. Her body overheated and she got dehydrated which is really easy in desert heat for normal people and twice as easy for someone her size. Not shocked she was sick the next day either. That was her body reacting to the adrenaline and sending all thte blood away from her gut, causing everything inside her to flee for the exit.
Doesn't matter how short the trail was, the sun was clearly too much for her out there and she was a fool to be out there alone in midsummer, with a bloody dog. She's desperately unfit, so will sweat profusely and lose insane amounts of water quickly which needed replacing in amounts larger han she was carrying, is so fat regulating her body temperaure will be harder for her than most women her age (lard insulates, and impedes circulation) and any length of walk for her under those conditions is really beyond her.
Desert heat is actually no joke, especially to those vulnerable to heat illnesses - the old, the sick and the morbidly obese. She's right abou how you don't realize you're dehydrating because you don't feel so sweaty as it evaporates off you instantly in the insane dryness. Hell, you can put down multiple litres of water in the space of a couple of hours and not even need to piss once. Throw in being under-prepared with not enough water and the wrong clothes and she was a walking disaster zone. She should have had a light-coloured, broad-brimmed hat (entering a desertt wihout a hat or head covering is fucking stupid as hell) and loose clothes, not stupid tight gym-wear ffs. There's a reason oudoor gear isn't sexy, and that's because it needs to serve important protective purposes distinct from looking kewl and fashion forward. I'm surprised she only got heat exhaustion. She could have had a heart attack out there and that would have been the end of her. Or progressed to heat stroke, which also would have ended her and again, her dog by proxy.
I'm slighly annoyed at her 'lesson' in all this being she could survive. Yes, well, obviously, as she's still here to make a video about it. What she should have learned is not to overchallenge herself for social media material (I wonder how much time she wasted standing in the heat, sun beating down on her head, setting up her tripod and taking photos?), that the great oudoors is way more challenging than a bloody treadmill and that she could have actually have lost her life and killed her poor dog through her own hubris and stupidity. Oh, and that you need to prepare better, understand risks more, and not drag dogs along on your unsuitable adventures.
Can you imagine her collapsing and some poor sod finding her? They wouldn't have been able to move her, carry her back, put her in shade or the recovery position, anything, although doubtless some heroic bastard would have tried and got himor herself a hernia. She'd need pro rescue, maybe a helicopter. That's if she were found at all before croaking. Seems not many people were as stupid as her to be out there in that kind of insane heat.
Oh and it bugged me when she explained he desert gets colder at night. Like it was some major newsflash. Like she doesn't understand how the earh rotates away from that huge firey thing in the sky and naturally gets cooler. She's so ignorant, for someone who boasts aboutt travelling so much. It's clear the great outdoors was never in her wheelhouse.
