Man dies taking survival test under guides’ care.

A man died of thirst during a wilderness-survival exercise in the Utah desert designed to test his physical and mental toughness, even though guides had water. They didn't offer him any because they did not want to spoil the character-building experience. By Day 2 in the blazing Utah desert, Dave Buschow was in bad shape. Pale, wracked by cramps, his speech slurred, the 29-year-old New Jersey man was desperate for water and hallucinating so badly he mistook a tree for a person. After going roughly 10 hours without a drink in the 100-degree heat, he […]