Hiker, 75, dies after being airlifted from trail near Tucson

A 75-year-old woman died after being airlifted from a hiking trail west of Tucson on Tuesday.

At about 11:40 a.m., the Pima County Sheriff’s Department received a report of an elderly woman, who had been hiking with two family members, in need of assistance due to exhaustion and heat-related illness on the Brown Mountain hiking trail, near the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Deputies and Picture Rocks firefighters located Robin James and her two family members. James was airlifted to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, a PCSD news release said. 

The two family members did not need medical attention, the release said.