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She Built Her Own Tourniquet - Survived 40 Miles Alone, Bleeding
She Built Her Own Tourniquet - Survived 40 Miles Alone, Bleeding
A lone ultrarunner fashioned a tourniquet from a snapped trekking pole and paracord, sealed a deep thigh wound, and then walked forty miles through December darkness-could a single handwritten index card and a planted trekking pole be the thin line between life and death?
In this episode, we follow the timeline, the gear, and the small decisions that guided a twenty-three-year-old woman through three days alone after a catastrophic injury; what led rescue teams to the wrong location, and how one note and one marker changed…
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