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The Boot That Shouldn't Be: A Guide's Fatal Shortcut on Veld Peak

The Boot That Shouldn't Be: A Guide's Fatal Shortcut on Veld Peak

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The Boot That Shouldn't Be: A Guide's Fatal Shortcut on Veld Peak

A single mountaineering boot stood upright between granite slabs at 9,200 feet with a wilderness permit card for Janet Draper dated December 6 - eight days after Draper arrived at Base Camp with only one boot. A certified guide took an unauthorized descent from the 13,400-foot summit into an unanchored east couloir that would end in a fatal fracture of events; what caused the sequence that left a survivor with almost no memory?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Advanced Camp at 03:47 through summit at 12:51 to the decision at 13:04 and the first signs of failure around 14:00, laying out the people, the devices, and the single object that pulled four investigations together - could one shortcut explain a missing boot and a near-amnesiac survivor?

Person: Janet Draper
Person: Christine Morgan
Person: Kevin Stroud
Person: Douglas Paine
Date: December 6, 2019

- Boot found at 09:51 on December 14 at 9,200 feet on the south flank of Veld Peak
- Wilderness permit card inside boot bears name Janet Draper and date December 6
- Summit reached at 12:51 at 13,400 feet; Kevin's communicator logged "Summit. All four. Wind increasing."
- Kevin's log at 13:04 recorded the decision: "couloir is faster. We have time."
- Couloir drops approximately 800 feet in less than half a mile and has no fixed anchors

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