Clinging to a Mountain: Ski Trip Gone Wrong

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A young college graduate, Jean Muenchrath, embarks on a cross country skiing trip with her boyfriend. Their thrilling adventure is all going to plan, until it isn’t. When an enormous weather front engulfs Mount Whitney, the young couple are forced into a rapid, unplanned descent. Their trip of a lifetime has become an epic fight against the elements. Jean must dig deep to find an inner strength she never knew she had… For more on this incredible story, read If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation. 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 with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	It's March 1982 in the Sierra Nevada, California.
0:25.0	A fierce lightning storm rages around the snow-capped peak of Mount Whitney.
0:33.1	Defining thunderclaps roll across the granite-gray mountains.
0:37.2	Blinding bolts of electricity
0:39.2	leap from the blizzard white skies. Just a few hundred feet below the summit, standing on an exposed ledge,
0:47.0	22-year-old Jean Munchrath hugs the rock face,
0:51.0	clinging on for dear life. At any second she could be ripped from the mountain
0:56.0	hurled into the abyss. Gene is all alone. She shouldn't be but she is. Somewhere down below her is her boyfriend
1:07.0	Ken. She watched him climb over the edge and disappear into the mailstrom some time
1:12.4	ago.
1:14.0	Her teeth rattle and she shivers uncontrollably.
1:18.0	She can't stay here forever.
1:20.0	What if something's happened to Ken? What if he needs her help?
1:25.0	She decides to go down after him.
1:29.0	Without ropes or ice screws, she will have to free climb.
1:34.4	Put one foot wrong, and she'll plummet to her death.
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