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Eight Days, Two Shoes: How a Cook Outsmarted Death in Canyons
Eight Days, Two Shoes: How a Cook Outsmarted Death in Canyons
The orange running shoes stood upright on a concrete anchor block at 8,700 feet, one shoe marked by a waterline across the toe - a concrete sign someone had been somewhere dark and wet and then disappeared. How did a 26-year-old prep cook survive eight days alone in a canyon with a broken foot, no fire, and failing weather while searchers looked two miles away?
In this episode, we tell what happened between the Sangre Frio Ridge Run start on September 6, 2014 and the discovery of the shoes on September 14, 2014, following Mark…
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