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It’s the closest stop for injured hikers and dehydrated tourists visiting Whitney or nearby Death Valley, which regularly receives more than 1 million visitors per year.

But on this trek he had lost his pack and was at the mercy of the elements ever since, hungry, dehydrated and shivering under a bed of needles.

Dr Anand said surgery could not be performed immediately as the baby was dehydrated, malnourished and first had to be stabilised.

“When you’re sick and potentially dehydrated, the tax of pitching in a game wasn’t worth it,” Roberts said.

During the seven weeks he lived with them, he became severely malnourished, dehydrated, and had more than 40 injuries on his body when he died.