Welcome back to the Sharpman Podcast. A podcast aimed at minimizing future outdoor accidents by way of storytelling.

Real people sharing real stories.

I'm Ashley Soppi, the creator and producer of this show.

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rockitoc.com slash sharp end. Do you know the difference between feeling too hot to profusely sweating and then maybe not sweating at all anymore?

Maybe your symptoms have progressed to cramping or even having some possible hallucinations.

Do you know that all of these symptoms mean specific things?

Did you know that heat illness is a spectrum of disorders

due to increased body temperatures,

and at one point you can no longer make a recovery in the field.

On July 30, 2022, Austin suffered a healness that could have cost him his life. He was climbing on the Olympic Peninsula

with his two friends. The Olympic Peninsula juds out to the west of Seattle, Washington. They set

out to climb the brothers, which are the two highest mountains in that range you can see from miles away.

On this particular day, the Pacific Northwest experienced abnormally high temperatures pushing into the mid 90s with low humidity.

Couple this with long exposure and the hot elements on an objective like this one

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