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He Hung His Own Suit: 21 Hours Frozen, Beacon Wrong by 2.3 Miles
He Hung His Own Suit: 21 Hours Frozen, Beacon Wrong by 2.3 Miles
Cold, alone, and with hands that stopped working in ten minutes, a 62-year-old kayaker hung his neon orange dry suit eight feet off the ground-dry, slightly warm, and with no footprints beneath it. The emergency beacon confirmed a position that sent rescuers 2.3 miles away; how did he manage to rig that suit in a gorge he’d never paddled before, without functional fingers?
In this episode, we follow the twenty-one hours in the Coldwater gorge after Donald Casey flipped in Notch Chute and activated his beacon, the failed…
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