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Buried Six Days: How a Winding Watch Kept Her Alive
Buried Six Days: How a Winding Watch Kept Her Alive
Fear tightens the chest: a mechanical field watch kept running after six days buried in avalanche debris, its ticking the slender margin between life and death. Tenner Creek's debris field crushed poles to confetti and sheared a sleeping pad to thumbnails - yet the wrist-wound watch kept time; how did that tiny motion mean Laura Simpson lived?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Laura Simpson leaving Prosper at 5:15 a.m. on May 8 to the discovery at Tenner Creek on May 14, following the missed signals, the misdirected…
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