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The Boot on Ridgeback Spur: How a Mountain Hid Her Eleven Days
The Boot on Ridgeback Spur: How a Mountain Hid Her Eleven Days
Danger threaded through a size-seven La Sportiva Trango left on a logging road - laces tied, wool sock damp, no blood - and a young geologist still walked away from the map. A solo climber survived eleven days with a broken ankle, two liters of water, and forty-one pages of notes while a search team hunted the wrong drainage; how did the mountain hide her in plain sight?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Denise Larsen’s approach to Merchant’s Horn through the fall that broke her ankle, her improvised field…
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