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The Blood‑Stiffened Pole: How a 62‑Year‑Old Walked Out of Winter's Teeth
The Blood‑Stiffened Pole: How a 62‑Year‑Old Walked Out of Winter's Teeth
Cold, isolated, and badly injured, a 62-year-old woman walked nearly nine miles through frozen desert and set a blood‑stiffened trekking pole on a stranger’s porch before sitting at a gas station to wait for help - how did she survive a torn quadriceps, an ice shelf collapse, and nearly twenty‑four hours alone? Listen to hear how training, improvised gear and a single deliberate decision kept her moving.
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the race start through the moment she arrived in town, tracing…
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