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Left Turn, Lost: How One Mile Became Nine Nights Alone
Left Turn, Lost: How One Mile Became Nine Nights Alone
Fear of being found too late is a tight, cold knot - Rhonda Campbell made a single left turn at mile nineteen and then survived nine nights with two liters of water, four energy gels, a nine-year-old headlamp and a mylar blanket; how did a biology teacher with marathon experience live alone in a high desert drainage until a birdwatcher found a neon-yellow shoe on a rock?
In this episode, we tell what happened on that September morning, what Rhonda carried, how she navigated and improvised, and why a twelve-degree compass error turned…
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