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He Walked Out of the Avalanche - How a Watch Proved It
He Walked Out of the Avalanche - How a Watch Proved It
The thought that will lodge in your chest is simple and sharp: a nine-day-old mechanical watch sat face-up on a debris field and was still running to within one minute - but how did its owner walk out of the avalanche that buried him? This episode centers on that puzzle and the single object that changed everything: a 1983 Seiko that kept time while a man fought to breathe under compacted snow. How can a watch prove survival where instruments and search teams could not?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from May 10th and the…
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