She has lived an ordinary life, by her own description — marriage, children, divorce, work, the ordinary passage of decades.

She has occasionally spoken to journalists, has expressed something between bemusement and acceptance about her place in a story that does not quite feel like her own.

She does not dwell on it, by her own account.

The night that became a medical case study, a media story, a teaching example in hypothermia medicine, and a frequently retold tale of extraordinary human survival — that night is, for her, a gap.

Six hours of absence that science can describe and that she cannot inhabit.