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Left Foot Through Ice: How a Trekking Pole Became Her Lifeline
Left Foot Through Ice: How a Trekking Pole Became Her Lifeline
Cold, isolated, and eleven degrees Fahrenheit at 6,200 feet - a fourteen-inch carbon-fiber trekking pole driven into the frozen ground was the only sign that something had gone terribly wrong on a hundred-mile course; what can a strip of gray fleece and a broken pole tell rescuers about a missing runner? What unfolded over the next 24 hours would hinge on one improvised decision and a race against time.
In this episode, we follow the events of December 7-9, 2019 at the Kessler Hundred and trace April Hicks’s actions from…
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