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Two Ski Poles, One Man: Surviving -29°F Alone in the Oxbow
Two Ski Poles, One Man: Surviving -29°F Alone in the Oxbow
The cold bites in the first sentence: at 6:41 AM on December 14, 2019 the temperature was -29°F and two ski poles stood perfectly upright, grips skyward, in an empty trailhead - the only sign someone had been found his way back from 4.5 miles into a frozen corridor. How did a 62-year-old experienced skier end up fighting to be seen at the edge of a deadly oxbow with one ski broken and no tracks returning?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from the Spur Nine trailhead through the Blacktail corridor to the Oxbow…
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