Hiking influencer Hannah Moody's cause of death revealed after being found dead on Arizona trail
Hiking influencer Hannah Moody's cause of death has been revealed more than a month after she was found dead near an Arizona trail.
The 31-year-old, who frequently shared videos of her hiking adventures with her nearly 50,000 Instagram followers, died from environmental heat exposure, according to online records from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office.
Her death was ruled accidental.
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4 Hannah Moody's death was ruled an accident after she died from enviornmental heat exposure.
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Moody's lifeless body was found just 600 yards from the Gateway Trailhead parking lot in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve on May 22 — more than a day after she was last seen hiking in the area, the Scottsdale Police Department said at the time.
Authorities launched an extensive ground and aerial search for the avid hiker after her concerned friends reported her missing on the evening of May 21 when they didn't hear from her.
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4 Search and rescue team at a trailhead.
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'I hope that she didn't suffer,' Moody's mom, Teri, told AZFamily.
'I hope that she was unaware of what was happening. It was preventable, which, that's kind of a hard pill to swallow.'
The outlet reported that temperatures had reached 102 degrees when Moody set off on the fatal hike.
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4 Hannah was an experienced hiker who posted on her socials about her outings.
The influencer, who also shared content about her faith, is remembered as a free-spirited and loyal friend, a fitness enthusiast and a fierce competitor.
4 Gateway Trailhead sign at McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
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'It's still hard to picture what happened and to figure out how she was in those last moments,' her mother told the local outlet, expressing hope that her daughter's tragic death might save a life.
'I'm hoping that it wasn't all for nothing. That if one life is saved because of Hannah, then that's one life that's been saved.'
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