{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Slot Canyon: Wedged on a Ledge All Night","description":"In September two thousand and three, canyon guide Sera Finch, twenty-seven, enters a remote slot canyon in the Escalante wilderness of southern Utah with her hiking partner for a two-day loop. But at two forty-five in the afternoon a flash flood fills the canyon without warning, and Sera is forced onto a narrow sandstone ledge four meters above the churning water, her right wrist broken, her partner gone for help. With walls too smooth to climb and water still rising, she has one piece of webbing, a plastic whistle, and a night of cold closing in around her. Her partner is running, but the nearest help is hours away, and the ledge is only a few centimeters above the flood's high mark.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}