Beacon Without a Body: How Holly Survived a Lost Signal in Goat Chute
Beacon Without a Body: How Holly Survived a Lost Signal in Goat ChuteA working avalanche beacon lay in the gravel at the roadside four miles from the closest snowpack, its battery full and pulse steady - yet the owner lay pinned under a slab of snow for more than thirty hours with a broken left leg and a core temperature near 91°F. How did a beacon travel that distance without its carrier, and why did its signal reach no one for over nineteen hours?In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Holly Wilson’s last preparations to the moment rescuers began to piece together an impossible…
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