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She Walked Out of Ice: Surviving 24 Hours at -28°F
She Walked Out of Ice: Surviving 24 Hours at -28°F
Her core temperature hit 89°F after she spent 24 hours and 39 minutes fighting a Minnesota winter that tried to kill her; two cross-country ski boots stood upright in unmarked snow at -29°F beside the Merritt River trail - a deliberate message that forced rescuers to ask: how did she survive a plunge into 31°F water in -28°F air and rebuild herself from the ground up?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a 7:40 a.m. call and a routine training loop to the moment a frozen river broke at 8:43 a.m., and we trace every choice that kept…
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