Buried in a Gully: Tragedy in the White Mountains

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Joe Lentini is an elite mountain rescuer in New Hampshire. He regularly faces high-stakes decisions and dilemmas. But in 1982, during one treacherous mission to find two missing teenagers, disaster strikes Joe’s own team. What should he do now that one of his own is in the line of fire?… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	It's the 25th of January 1982 on the lower slopes of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
0:39.0	A rectangular truck-sized vehicle known as a snow cat rumbles along a rugged mountain trail.
0:47.0	Its wide tracks leave patterns in the snow.
0:50.0	Its headlamps beam through the blizzard.
0:55.0	From the vehicle's juttering backseat,
0:57.0	29-year-old Joe Lentini glances up at Mount Washington.
1:02.0	The colossal bulk of the mountains east face looms above the tree
1:06.7	line, streaked with ice-filled gullies and rib-like granite spurs. He shudders at the prospect of returning there tomorrow.
1:20.0	Joe is a member of the New Hampshire Mountain Rescue Service.
1:24.4	For the past 48 hours, he and his colleagues have been out searching for two missing teenage
1:29.7	boys.
1:31.9	It's been dangerous, exhausting, frustrating, but that's the job.
1:37.0	We've had two really hard days.
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