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Hours on a Frozen Ledge: How She Survived with a Broken Ankle
Hours on a Frozen Ledge: How She Survived with a Broken Ankle
Cold, precise survival: a 23-year-old paraglider with a fractured ankle endured 29 hours on a Montana shelf at 14°F, left a half-eaten, unfrozen granola bar beside her abandoned glider bag, and used only her flight gear to send a signal-how did she turn equipment and method into rescue? What choice turned a routine launch into one of the most methodical survival acts recorded in the Abner Range?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of what happened from takeoff to the moment rescue became possible, outlining her gear, decisions…
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