The Wrong-Side Notebook: Why Patricia Walked Down Alone
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The Wrong-Side Notebook: Why Patricia Walked Down Alone
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A crisp red notebook stood upright against a rock at 9,000 feet while its owner lay dead three days on the mountain - and the notebook was on the wrong side of Cerro Malgado. The episode centers on a deliberate reversed carabiner found 40 meters below the last anchor, a clinical log of headache and ataxia, and one unresolved question: why did Patricia leave the established descent and walk down alone?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence recorded in Patricia Simmons’s red Rite in the Rain notebook, the expedition choices that set the schedule, and the physical evidence on the fixed rope that points to a conscious act. Was her final movement driven by high-altitude cerebral edema, by route choice, or by something else?
Person: Patricia Simmons
Age: 54
Event: Summit and descent of Cerro Malgado north face
Date: November 10, 2009 (summit); body found November 14, 2009
Finding: Reversed carabiner gate clipped to a fixed rope 40 meters below last confirmed anchor
- Patricia weighed crickets for her leopard gecko Reeves at 6:15 AM every morning for eight years and recorded the weights in notebooks.
- The summit team of four reached the north summit at 11:40 AM on November 10, 2009; descent began at 11:55 AM.
- Patricia made a first notebook entry noting "Severe headache" at 3:15 PM, then recorded "ataxia" at 4:05 PM.
- A reversed carabiner gate was found 40 meters below the last confirmed anchor on the fixed rope; reversing a gate requires two deliberate hand movements.
- Patricia stopped under a bergschrund overhang at approximately 15,800 feet, a shelter not on any marked descent path.
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