He Came Down the Wrong Drainage: The Vault on Aldrich Creek
He Came Down the Wrong Drainage: The Vault on Aldrich Creek
A man in his twenties survived five days alone in a utility vault with his boots on the wrong feet after leaving a summit to follow something "angular" and reflective - seen from 11,200 feet through binoculars - into the Aldrich Creek drainage. What made a precise draftsman abandon a planned South Saddle descent and head into Class Three-plus terrain that would take searchers days to partially reconstruct?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a clear Saturday morning at 6:47 a.m. to the moment Erin Ramsey finds Philip Weber…
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