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Alone on the Plateau: How a GPS Error Almost Killed Her
Alone on the Plateau: How a GPS Error Almost Killed Her
Adrenaline and dread: a single one-third mile GPS error redirected an 18-hour search while Gina Brown waited alone on an unnamed limestone plateau at 8,200 feet with a cold front approaching - how did a harmless software average nearly kill her?
In this episode, we tell the story of what happened to Gina Brown after her paraglider landed on a plateau with sheer faces and no trail, and how a subtle GPS processing decision sent rescuers the wrong way; can a twelve-minute block of identical coordinates mask the difference between life and…
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