She Climbed an Impossible Couloir - Found Alive, Stakes Unexplained
She Climbed an Impossible Couloir - Found Alive, Stakes Unexplained
A woman survived six nights above the cloud line after climbing a north-facing, thirty-eight-degree couloir described by the county as "impassable" under consolidated snow; a perfectly staked orange-and-gray tent sat alone on a limestone bench at 8,400 feet with no footprints leading to it. How did she climb that face without crampons or an ice axe, and why were two aluminum tent stakes found at her side?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of decisions and conditions that led Angela Wagner off the registered Bench Loop and…
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