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Left on the Ridge: How One Missed Call Nearly Killed Him
Left on the Ridge: How One Missed Call Nearly Killed Him
Adrenaline and dread: a single missed evening call set off a cascade of reasonable decisions that left a man alone at 9,100 feet for five days - with a damaged radio that could transmit but not receive and a three-inch mirror as his only signaling device. How did clerical lists, a partial radio, and four nights of cloud cover combine to hide him from every search team?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Scott Brooks stayed behind on Saddleback service road to the delayed search that followed, laying out how…
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