The 19-year-old daughter of two doctors was woefully unprepared for wintry weather conditions when she attempted to climb the summit of one of the state's mountains last month.Emily Sotelo had only started hiking two years ago, but she already summited 40 of New Hampshire's 48 peaks over 4,000 feet, a popular goal that has long attracted hikers to the White Mountains. But tragically she died in November while attempting to scale all of the mountains, with her body discovered three days after she went missing, on what would have been her 20th birthday. Emily, a college sophomore, had almost no experience with winter hiking, and officials say she did not have any of the essential equipment that would have prepared her for the brutal conditions that eventually killed her: temperatures between 5 degrees and below zero, and wind gusts of up to 95 mph.
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