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She Landed Where No One Thought to Look: 55 Hours Alone
She Landed Where No One Thought to Look: 55 Hours Alone
Cold, high, and unseen: a trained respiratory therapist and experienced paraglider survived 55 hours alone on a granite plateau 6,400 feet above sea level after a controlled landing where no searcher looked. How did a methodical pilot with two fired maritime smoke canisters, an emergency blanket and a fractured ankle end up perched on a cliff nobody checked?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from launch through the first day of the search and the later discoveries that reframed the case, asking how routine checks, a missed…
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