The Crampon in the Ditch: How Kalder Peak Broke a Body and a Trust
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The Crampon in the Ditch: How Kalder Peak Broke a Body and a Trust
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A single crampon-twelve steel points, aluminum frame, nylon straps still fastened-was found in a roadside ditch forty-one miles from Kalder Peak with a fragment of blue glacial ice sealed to its plate; two days earlier the woman wearing it lay alone on a snowfield with a shattered femur, fractured wrist, two broken ribs and a severe concussion. What happened between the summit at 14,882 feet and that highway shoulder that made such an impossible detail make perfect, terrible sense?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a 4:30 a.m. wake-up on May 7 to a lone crampon found at 6:40 a.m. on May 9, tracing decisions, the weather, and the rope log that falls silent for five and a half hours; how did a methodical guide with 23 prior summits and a prepared climber end up with one of them unable to walk the same way again?
Person: Lori Vaughn
Person: Laura Perry
Person: Person: Rex Dunbar
Person: Person: Tessa Wold
Date: May 7-9
- Crampon found at 6:40 a.m. on May 9 by truck driver Wade Stewart on Highway Nine near the Pelton Creek bridge.
- Kalder Peak summit recorded at 1:14 p.m. with “Summit, all four, 14,882 feet, winds calm.”
- Distance from roadside ditch to nearest trailhead for Kalder Peak: 41 miles.
- Lori Vaughn’s injuries after ~40 hours alone: shattered femur, fractured wrist, two broken ribs, and a severe concussion.
- Guide Laura Perry’s experience: founder of Salloway Summit Services with 23 prior summits on Kalder via the North Couloir.
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