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He Survived; His Snowmobile Glowed Underwater Three Days Later

He Survived; His Snowmobile Glowed Underwater Three Days Later

Cold panic: a snowmobile lay four feet under a Montana inlet with its headlight still glowing in mid-July, and a man spent fifty-three minutes clinging to its hot engine while a rescue device sat unread in a truck - how did everything go so wrong? What did a seven-forty-two satellite fix, a warm front, and a hidden void in the snowpack combine to produce?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the night before through July 11, 2009, and follow the moments that left a man soaked, near freezing, and a snowmobile…

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