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The Two Weeks Denali's Most Beautiful Ridge Turned Killer | Disaster Strikes E 268

Podcast: The Crux True Survival Stories · The Crux True Survival Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

On May 24, 1998, a Canadian climber lost his footing on Denali's West Buttress and disappeared down the north face toward the Peters Glacier. Two National Park Service volunteer rangers were a hundred feet ahead of him. One of them radioed for permission to go down and look, got it, and started descending — and somewhere on that slope a decision was made that two separate federal investigations would spend the following year trying to explain. What happened next left one man clipped to a single ice screw in a storm, with no radio, waiting to find out whether anyone knew where he wa...