How to Stay Alive

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Oct 21, 2025
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Amazing story in the Guardian of a woman's astonishing determination after a nearly fatal fall on Mount Whitney:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/21/fell-at-the-top-of-mountain-trekked-for-five-days-with-broken-spine-in-snowstorm

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