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The Boot in the Window: 11 Days Alone on the Ridge
The Boot in the Window: 11 Days Alone on the Ridge
Fear tightens the throat when you realize a single size seven hiking boot, laced and knotted, sat upright in a north-facing window sixty-two feet above a ridgeline for eleven days before anyone noticed - and that one small choice was the signal that saved a life. How did routine failures in a system meant to protect a lookout align so precisely that a woman could be known to be on a tower yet remain effectively invisible for eleven days?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on November 8-19, 2009, that left Paula Foster isolated on…
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