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Alone in the Canyon: 27 Hours Between Fire and Rescue
Alone in the Canyon: 27 Hours Between Fire and Rescue
Cold, precise, and dangerously miscalculated: a kayak sits perfectly upright in calm water while its paddler survives alone a mile upstream, feeding a fire stick by stick for 27 hours. How did a technically prepared 22-year-old with seven years of river experience end up stranded in a basalt canyon with time slipping toward a second night?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning of October 13, 1997 through the discovery on October 14, 1997, covering river conditions, equipment, and the actions the paddler took to…
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