RickshawFan
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That was my sense, too, @RedHaus , of that location. The rubble-y stream crosses the trail right near the refuge. You'd want to put that water through a filter, but it was close by. I don't think ED had capacity to get more than 2 L of water at a go, so she will have needed to refill several times a day along the way, if she was going to continue on her journey.RickshawFan, I found the discrepancy in potable water availability at the Refuge de V, significant too. Here is a snip of the relevant statement from page 12 of DC's dossier. If the statement is true, it certainly diminishes the odds that ED made a risky venture down to one of the small lakes at the refuge for water to filter:
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Source: https://42cc80b7-be3b-41e3-a85b-18b...d/4addd9_d8c55b489c6f445b96d6324dd882f5a1.pdf
What caught my attention was that she asked for fruit on the Pic. That seemed very odd to do, unless you needed liquid because you were out of water or soon would be. If you just like fruit, you bring it with your supplies from town, you don't ask a stranger for it. It seems to me, she needed some, or why would she ask?
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