Ep 15 - Water in the Hole! - Skander Spies

the Sharp End Podcast

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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Skander Spies, a volunteer with Denali National Park's climbing rangers, had just headed out on patrol on the Kahiltna Glacier. Although they didn't know it yet, the rangers would record eleven separate crevasse falls that day, including Skander's. And his incident was scarier than most! The Sharp End is produced each month by Accidents in North American Climbing, an annual publication of the American Alpine Club, and is presented by Mammut, with additional support from Vertical Medicine Resources and Colorado Outward Bound School.

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0:16.0	Hey there. Welcome back. I'm Ashley your hostess for the Sharp End. I'm super happy to say that my February episode has reached over 14,000 listens. So thank you so much and please leave me a review on iTunes it only takes a couple of seconds
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0:35.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Alpine Club and sponsored by
0:41.0	Mamut. Designed and developed in the Swiss Alps,
0:44.0	Mamoot has been making the finest alpine equipment since 1862.
0:49.0	With a full range of technical free ride clothing and safety equipment including the pulse and element
0:54.4	Barri-Vox Avalanche Beacons, PAS and RAS Avalanche airbag systems, free ride packs, shovels,
1:02.4	probes, ropes, harnesses, and climbing hardware.
1:06.0	Mammoot outfits the Freewriter and Mountaineer to pursue their downhill passions with style and safety.
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1:17.0	Also thanks to vertical medicine resources
1:20.0	and the Colorado Outward Bound School
1:22.0	for being contributing sponsors of The Sharp End.
1:29.0	And for today's guest, we have a man named Scander Spees, who had an incident in my home state, Alaska.
1:37.4	Welcome to the show.
1:39.3	Go ahead and please introduce yourself.
1:41.3	Sure, my name is Scander Spees and I'm a mechanical engineer and I live in Seattle, Washington.
1:47.0	I love to go out to the mountains, rock climbing, back under skiing, inbound skiing, trail running, really all of its fair game.
1:56.0	And Seattle is a really wonderful place to be to do all of that stuff.
2:01.0	So is Alaska. I love adventuring in Alaska and my first
2:06.2	trip up there was actually for an old semester in 2007 and got a lot of great skills
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