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Buried Alive 11 Days: How Larry Jenkins Defied the Avalanche
Buried Alive 11 Days: How Larry Jenkins Defied the Avalanche
A single ski pole stood vertical in eleven-day-old crust - a startling concrete sign that someone might still be alive under nearly four feet of avalanche debris. Larry Jenkins survived buried for eleven days and fourteen hours with no beacon, no food, and a broken arm; how did he keep counting when everything else had gone silent?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the moment Grant Boyd spotted that impossible ski pole to the rescue patterns and decisions that missed Larry for days. We cover the conditions, the search…
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