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The Boot on Road 7: How She Survived Nine Hours Above 9,000
The Boot on Road 7: How She Survived Nine Hours Above 9,000
Cold, isolated, and precise: a single mountaineering boot sits upright on unbroken snow at 6:20 AM, no tracks, no pack, and a woman struggles nine hours above 9,000 feet with a fractured ankle-could one decision save her life? Discover how a veterinary tech's training, a dead radio repeater, and a boot lowered on paracord intersected in a survival choice that left rescuers scrambling for answers.
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a morning discovery on Forest Service Road 7-Alto to the climb, the fall, and the night that…
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