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Six Minutes, One Hand: How She Vanished Without a Trace
Six Minutes, One Hand: How She Vanished Without a Trace
Cold water survival boiled down to a six-minute window: in forty-degree water, hand function fails after ten to fifteen minutes, and Erin Whitley lost coordination in her left hand at minute six. A burnt-orange dry bag was later found clipped to her PFD on a granite ledge twelve feet above the waterline with a charged VHF radio, a laminated topo map circled at Fen Hollow, and a single damp left glove-so who climbed out and left it behind?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events from Erin Whitley’s solo run on October 5, 2017…
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