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Left for Dead, Found by a Bottle: How Karen Mapped Her Rescue
Left for Dead, Found by a Bottle: How Karen Mapped Her Rescue
A sixteen-year-old found an orange-capped water bottle snagged on a root with a hand-drawn, topographically accurate map inside, rendered in blackberry juice and ash - a map made by someone who had never stood in that drainage. How did Karen Graham survive six days with a fractured arm and no satellite communicator, and who really put that bottle where a paper route kid would find it?
In this episode, we tell the story of Karen Graham's disappearance, survival, and the rescue that almost failed, following the clues in her training…
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