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He Climbed Down 900 Feet With a Broken Leg - How He Survived
He Climbed Down 900 Feet With a Broken Leg - How He Survived
Fear and focus collide: a climber descended 900 feet of vertical granite alone with a broken fibula, leaving his tent anchored 900 feet above where he would be found - how did he navigate two hours of decisions and fourteen hours of misdirected search-and-rescue? What choice kept him alive when every option seemed impossible?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a lone tent spotted on NV-228 to the discovery that the climber had already descended the wall on a broken leg, and we trace the decisions, gear, and…
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