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The Trekking Pole Clue: How a Broken Pole Saved a 62‑Year‑Old Runner
The Trekking Pole Clue: How a Broken Pole Saved a 62‑Year‑Old Runner
Cold, deliberate improvisation turned a broken trekking pole into a lifesaving clue: a blood-stained thermal sleeve wound in a figure-eight, planted grip-down in frozen mud at 6:14 AM on December 9, 2019 - but what did that signal really mean, and how would it change a search that hadn’t even begun? Find out how one snapped shaft pointed rescuers toward a woman who had been moving alone through thirty miles of wilderness for over thirty-one hours.
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the race start to the moment the…
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