How would you react to this bit of information? If you an adventurer, you’d think of visiting the place to see how hot it really feels and how well your body can take the heat. Like those who travel to Antarctica and dive in the icy water to see how quickly their blood freezes.

Visitors to the Death Valley have found out an innovative way to utilize solar power. In what has now become a trend, people are frying eggs on the sidewalk of the region. No LPG needed. No stove, no pan. It’s back to the basics again. Curiosity and the thrill of witnessing something incredible is causing them to turn the sidewalk of the Park into a frying pan.

The trend has given rise to a major problem of litter in the form of eggshells and cartons being strewn around. The maintenance staff at the park is having a hard time cleaning up the mess. The park has requested the people to use a pan or a tin foil.

Eliza Ronalds-Hannon from Skift has a sensible solution:

“The novel tradition of frying an egg on the sidewalk amid ghastly temps need not die: just line the sidewalk with a piece of tin foil first.”

A few days ago, an employee of the park had demonstrated the intensity of the heat by frying an egg in a pan. Little did the poor fellow know that his action would turn the Park into a frying pan.

Frying eggs isn’t the only eccentric feat people are trying to achieve. A certain Mr Jonathan Rice is trying to set a record for the fastest mile run in such a temperature. Dressed as Darth Vader from Star Wars, he calls it the ‘Darth Valley Challenge”.

And then there is the Badwater Ultramarathon which is touted as “the world’s toughest foot race”. Covering 135 miles, it is held in mid-July, when the weather is the most hostile. Dude, not even the pros are good at this.