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Nine Days on a Frozen Plateau: How She Stayed Alive Alone
Nine Days on a Frozen Plateau: How She Stayed Alive Alone
Cold, remote, and improvisational: a four-foot inflatable pool at 9,400 feet steaming in 23°F air was the last visible clue in a survival plan gone wrong - and one woman spent nine days alone on a mountain that no one realized she was on. How did a cook with tracking instincts, a 100°F pool, and a failed communication chain keep herself alive when the road out was buried in eleven inches of snow?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that left Cynthia Henderson isolated on Vásquez Plateau, what equipment and decisions the…
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