The Unseen Climber: Photo That Rewrote a Mountain's Decisions
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The Unseen Climber: Photo That Rewrote a Mountain's Decisions
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A single photograph from a recovered stuff sack showed an unidentified figure on Virden Spire’s summit plateau and forced a re-examination of the choices that put four climbers on a ridge they were never meant to be on. The image came from one of two rolls of film found in Sutter Creek and it contains sixty-one usable frames - but why did that one frame change everything?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline recovered from depositions, summit logs, and the recovered camera to lay out what happened before and after the shutter clicked. What decisions-made hours earlier and off the pre-filed plan-led the party up an east couloir and onto a ridge that ended with a thirty-one foot fall?
Person: Kimberly Jones
Person: Aaron Delgado
Person: Kathleen Sharp
Date: August 14, 2003
Location: Virden Spire, central Nevada
- Stuff sack with two rolls of Kodak color print film was pulled from Sutter Creek at 9:47 AM on a Tuesday in late October 2003.
- One roll contained sixty-one usable frames; three frames were taken on the summit plateau.
- The team left the trailhead on August 9 and established Virden Spire at approximately 11,200 feet on August 11.
- The group deviated from the planned southwest face to the east couloir on the morning of August 14, gaining roughly ninety minutes.
- One climber fell thirty-one feet onto unstable talus after all four had climbed the ridge; nobody died.
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