Desert Rescue: Blazing Sun, Twist of Fate

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Worn out by city life, a young travel journalist decides it’s time to reconnect with herself out in the desert. But what should be a straightforward hike soon turns into a very different journey of self-discovery. Claire Nelson finds herself deep amidst the sand, trapped in a gully. None of her friends or family know where she is. How on earth will she be rescued before the elements overwhelm her? A Noiser production, written by Dan Smith. For more on Claire’s amazing story read Things I Learned From Falling. 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 for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.4	It's a blazing hot afternoon in California's Joshua Tree National Park,
0:33.0	1,000 square miles of arid plains, escarpments, and sun-baked scrub.
0:38.0	In the southern end of the park, the dunes of the desert morph into a rocky lunar landscape.
0:45.0	There are spires of weathered sandstone, craggy canyons, and dried out riverbeds.
0:51.0	Here and there, the signs of a neglected hiking trail are just about discernible.
0:57.0	It winds its way between house-sized boulders
1:00.0	and pockmarked slabs of stone.
1:03.6	Not far from the trail, hidden within a sand-filled gully, lies 35-year-old New Zealander, Claire
1:10.2	Nelson.
1:12.4	She cannot move an inch.
1:14.0	It's 32 degrees Celsius.
1:17.0	Her tongue sticks to the side of her mouth like Velcro.
1:20.0	All day, Claire's mind has tormented her with thoughts of ice-cold beverages.
1:25.0	And I would, you know, visualize these fridges full of bottles with no labels, just different colored liquids in them and the
1:35.6	condensation it runs down the side of the bottle it was torturous it was
1:39.9	really torturous. Instead Claire has something far less appealing to hand.
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