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He Threw His Boot Downriver - Then Waited to Be Found
He Threw His Boot Downriver - Then Waited to Be Found
Fear of being alone on a snowbound ridge, with a broken fibula and no cell signal: a dry mountaineering boot carried three pages of notes, a topographic fragment, orange surveyor's tape and one ibuprofen tablet downriver and into a stranger's hands - but why did George Henderson choose that exact creek crossing and throw his boot instead of heading for the trailhead?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the summit of Brentenhead to the river where the boot was found, covering the injury, the wrong drainage descent, the…
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