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Harness in the Granite: How He Survived Four Days Alone Above 9000ft

Harness in the Granite: How He Survived Four Days Alone Above 9000ft

Fear of being missed is immediate: a fully buckled paragliding harness wedged upright in a granite crack at 9,040 feet, no tracks, no tent, no body-just a deliberate-looking clue that stopped a walker cold. Who left that harness while the person who owned it sat alive and rationing beans one mile up the slope, waiting to be found?

In this episode, you’ll hear the sequence of events and the people involved that turned a routine afternoon flight into four days of survival, search, and problem-solving. The episode follows the…

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