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Left His Bike, Followed Water: 22 Days Lost Above 8,000ft

Left His Bike, Followed Water: 22 Days Lost Above 8,000ft

Fear tightens when you realize a man walked twenty-two days above 8,000 feet bleeding through a carbon shoe, guided only by the sound of water. A stiff jersey crusted with dried salt hung over a saddle beside a locked pump station fourteen miles from the nearest paved road-yet the rider was nowhere to be found. How did Thomas Hunt survive alone in roadless alpine terrain for more than three weeks?

In this episode, we tell what happened from the moment Curtis Whitley found the abandoned Pinarello to the family’s discovery weeks later…

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