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She Walked Out of Minus-22 Wearing Birch Bark and Nothing Else
She Walked Out of Minus-22 Wearing Birch Bark and Nothing Else
Cold so absolute it should have killed her: thirty below air, ninety seconds in icy water, and forty-eight-year-old Crystal Sawyer walked out of the Pembrook State Forest wearing strips of birch bark as clothing - but how did she survive fifty-five hours alone with a broken leg and no gear?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Ruth Slater saw a woman at the tree line to Crystal’s hospital arrival with a core temperature of 94.1°F, reconstructing what Crystal did in the critical hour after falling through…
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