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She Left a Shoe in a Water Meter - Found Alive Nine Days Later
She Left a Shoe in a Water Meter - Found Alive Nine Days Later
Fear of being alone and lost collides with methodical preparedness: a size 8 trail runner was found sitting upright in a twelve-inch water meter housing, laced and pointing north-yet the runner had been home three days earlier. How did a meticulous 44-year-old, experienced marathoner and ultrarunner survive nine days below a ridgeline with a fractured foot and leave a shoe in a meter a dozen days after the race?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a routine meter read to the race-day wrong turn, the search-and-rescue…
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