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Hours on a Knife: How a Transposed Digit Nearly Killed Her
Hours on a Knife: How a Transposed Digit Nearly Killed Her
A woman survived for sixty-seven hours on an eight-foot sandstone ledge above a wall of red-brown floodwater that filled a narrow canyon in under ninety seconds - and the rescue teams spent hours searching two thousand feet in the wrong direction. How did a transposed digit in a coordinate and a missing satellite communicator turn a routine drainage survey into a life-or-death countdown?
In this episode, we lay out what happened step-by-step: who Shannon Erickson was, the gear and field plan she followed, the flood’s timing, and the…
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