Ep 16 - The Red Gully - Jennifer Staufer and Adam Vonnahme

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🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Experienced mountaineers Jennifer Staufer and Adam Vonnahme were descending 14,294-foot Crestone Peak in Colorado when Jen slipped on an unexpected patch of ice and careened about 150 feet down the Red Gully, sustaining multiple injuries. Jen was 10 weeks pregnant at the time, adding to their fears. In this episode, Ashley chats with Jen and Adam about the climb and the dramatic nighttime rescue that followed. This incicdent was documented in the 2016 edition of Accidents in North American Climbing: http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201214127.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. I'm Ashley, your host is for the sharp end. This podcast is brought to you by
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0:44.0	Also thanks to Vertical Medicine Resources and the Colorado Hour Bound School for being
0:49.2	contributing sponsors of the Sharp End. So for this month's guest, I'd chat with two folks who had quite the experience in Southern
0:57.1	Colorado in the Sonrado Crystal Mountains.
1:01.6	Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is Adam
1:05.8	Bonami. I live in Superior, Colorado. I'm married and have two kids and I've been
1:12.0	climbing in the Colorado Mountains since 2010.
1:16.0	Nice, well that's, it's good to meet you and it's good to have you on the show and go ahead
1:19.7	and introduce yourself.
1:21.7	Jennifer Stoffer, I also live in Superior, Colorado.
1:25.0	I'm married, have one child.
1:27.1	Started climbing 14ers in 2008 as a way to exercise my black lab and fell in love with it and have about 42 under my belt now.
1:40.0	4214ers, wow.
1:42.0	Yeah, and I have I think 36 under my belt now.
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