He Walked Out of the Avalanche - How a Watch Proved It
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He Walked Out of the Avalanche - How a Watch Proved It
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The thought that will lodge in your chest is simple and sharp: a nine-day-old mechanical watch sat face-up on a debris field and was still running to within one minute - but how did its owner walk out of the avalanche that buried him? This episode centers on that puzzle and the single object that changed everything: a 1983 Seiko that kept time while a man fought to breathe under compacted snow. How can a watch prove survival where instruments and search teams could not?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from May 10th and the mountain’s sudden release through the discovery of the watch on May 19th, and trace the decisions, gear, and small habits that turned the outcome from presumed death to an astonishing survival. What did the watch mean in the total silence beneath forty thousand tons of moving snow?
Person: Michael Fleming
Date: May 10, 2014
Location: Sutter Bowl, Calloway Range
Finder: Mark Hansen
Watch: Seiko manual-wind, manufactured 1983
- The avalanche released approximately forty thousand tons of snow that buried Michael Fleming.
- Fleming was buried under approximately 60-70 centimeters of compacted snow.
- The watch had been on the debris field for nine days when Mark Hansen found it.
- When returned to its owner, the watch was accurate to within one minute.
- Michael Fleming was 31 years old and had worked four years as a civil engineer.
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