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Buried Alive 41 Hours: The Trekking Pole That Kept Time
Buried Alive 41 Hours: The Trekking Pole That Kept Time
Cold, rhythmic danger: a trekking pole strap was oscillating in the snow long after a 41-hour avalanche burial, and the sound of a mechanical watch kept a woman alive inside a grapefruit-sized air pocket. How did a cracked-field watch, a torn-off beacon, and a misplaced itinerary nearly doom the rescue?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Ruth Andrews’ May 7th departure to the moment a snowplow operator stopped at 6:14 a.m. on May 9th, covering the decisions, equipment failures, and small signals that directed search teams to…
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