Locked Shed, No Tracks: How Rhonda Walked Forty Miles Bleeding

Life or Death: Survivor Stories · Oct 10, 2026 · 16m

Locked Shed, No Tracks: How Rhonda Walked Forty Miles Bleeding

Cold, isolated, and with a knee that would not bear weight, Rhonda Bennett activated an emergency beacon at 4:22 PM and later left a blood-stained singlet knotted to a trekking pole against a locked shed four miles from the nearest road - with no footprints in the snow. How did a 28-year-old ultrarunner survive roughly forty miles and fourteen and a half hours bleeding through the southern Rockies in December 2019, and why was the most important evidence found where no tracks led?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events…