The Boot on Ridgeback Spur: How a Mountain Hid Her Eleven Days
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The Boot on Ridgeback Spur: How a Mountain Hid Her Eleven Days
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Danger threaded through a size-seven La Sportiva Trango left on a logging road - laces tied, wool sock damp, no blood - and a young geologist still walked away from the map. A solo climber survived eleven days with a broken ankle, two liters of water, and forty-one pages of notes while a search team hunted the wrong drainage; how did the mountain hide her in plain sight?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Denise Larsen’s approach to Merchant’s Horn through the fall that broke her ankle, her improvised field surgery, and the eleven-day movement that eluded rescuers. How did a two-hundred-meter navigational error and an uncharted face reroute both her route and the entire search?
Person: Denise Larsen
Location: Merchant's Horn north-shoulder face, Fitch Creek Basin
Date: Early August (approach Aug 2, fall Aug 3, return date Aug 5)
Item: La Sportiva Trango boot, size 7, right foot found on Ridgeback Spur
Duration: Eleven days of movement while missing
- Found boot: right-foot La Sportiva Trango, size seven, laces tied, wool sock damp, no blood.
- Elevation of fall: approximately 7,700 feet; fall distance about twelve feet into a rock bowl.
- Injuries inventoried: broken left ankle (weight-bearing impossible), deep forearm laceration, three cracked ribs later confirmed.
- Supplies carried: two liters of water, four days of food, a trekking pole, and forty-one pages of handwritten notes.
- First day movement: August 4 traverse of roughly 400 feet of ledge over seven hours using one boot and an improvised splint/crutch.
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