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Five Frozen Nights: How a Fracture Turned a Hiker's Plan Inside Out

Five Frozen Nights: How a Fracture Turned a Hiker's Plan Inside Out

Cold, deliberate choices can be the difference between rescue and being overlooked: a folded yellow jacket on a sandstone ledge at 19°F, a laminated map marked with notes, and a man with a fractured fibula stranded forty feet below a rim-how did every sensible precaution still lead Roger Sheridan to spend five freezing nights unseen? What single shortcut erased his safety net and stretched a routine hike into a survival puzzle?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Roger’s precise preparations and the texted route to…

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