bivouac
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They also allege he started out two hours too late and had failed to take "enough emergency bivouac equipment".
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Kovacs said lifting Dickey will likely take several days, and that several bivouac points are being prepared along the way so that he and rescue teams can rest.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023
The bivouac fell into a ravine, but no one happened to be in the building at the time.
From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2023
Lugging oil rigs, construction equipment and bivouac gear into the wilderness to plug a well involves logistical acrobatics, a feat that Mr. Smith described as “90 percent planning, 10 percent execution.”
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
I carried no rope, no tent or bivouac gear, no hardware save my ice axes.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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