I guess their followers will soon be seeing them here,
as heat tourist, the latest craze, with
some people driving thousands of miles to Nevada’s Death Valley for a selfie
with the thermometer listing one of the hottest recorded temperatures on Earth, back in 2013, NPR reported that people from as far as New Zealand,
Belgium and China traveled to the California desert valley just to experience
the extreme heat for themselves, “It’s one
of the few places in the world where you can easily come out and experience
temperatures into the 120s, and that’s why we get visitors from all over the
world,” one person explained, only things have changed a lot over the last
seven years. For one, social media has become a big part of our lives, and
Instagram has really taken off, so it doesn’t come as a big surprise that for a
lot of people heat tourism means traveling to Death Valley just to take a
selfie with the iconic thermometer there showing an extreme temperature, according
to YouTuber Dan Markham, who recently drove from Utah to Death Valley, some
people would stay in their cars with their air-conditioning on blast and just
keep their eye on the thermometer. As soon as it reached a really high
temperature, they would all flock to it for a selfie, “It would be stuck at 129
and then all of a sudden it would go up to 130 and everyone would run out of
their cars to take a picture,” Markham told LA Times, global warming? for these heat seekers bring it on!
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