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29th May 2014, 07:50
One of the most amazing stories I've heard in a while.
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Dr. John All was taking snow samples on his own on Mount Himlung—in Nepal's Himalayas—when the glacier broke under his feet. He fell into a 70-foot crevasse and suffered multiple injuries, but he managed to escape using an ice pick, filming himself during an agonizing adventure that lasted six hours.
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"I'm pretty well ****ed"
Dr John All, an American academic, crawled for nine hours with a broken arm and ribs after falling down an ice crevasse in Nepal
An American academic has filmed his escape from “certain” death as he crawled in agony to safety after falling seventy feet onto a Himalayan mountain crevasse, breaking his arm, ribs and suffering severe cuts and bruises.
Dr John All, a geography lecturer from West Kentucky University who specialises in mountain science was collecting snow samples on the 23,379 feet Mount Himlung, close to Mount Everest in the Nepal Himalaya, when he fell into a deep crevasse which had been hidden by recent heavy snow.
His body ricocheted between the walls of the crevasse as he fell before he landed on a precarious ice ridge 70 feet down but more than 300 feet from the bottom. He spent the next six hours in agony crawling inch by inch with his ice axe, knowing that at any moment one slip and he would fall to a certain death.
“My body was shattered and I was in agony”, he told the Telegraph on Thursday. “My face hit one wall, my back and stomach hit the back wall and I bounced between them. My face was pretty torn up. I landed on a piece of ice at a midpoint.”
“I could have fallen another 100 metres and it’s amazing I didn’t. The entire time climbing out I knew if I slipped I would have been dead”, he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10849632/Man-films-his-escape-from-certain-death-after-plunging-down-70ft-Himalayan-crevasse.html
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IDQnE31Z--/bahpaifac4mn0lpvfjj8.jpg
Dr. John All was taking snow samples on his own on Mount Himlung—in Nepal's Himalayas—when the glacier broke under his feet. He fell into a 70-foot crevasse and suffered multiple injuries, but he managed to escape using an ice pick, filming himself during an agonizing adventure that lasted six hours.
vlQFvAi8zdo
IDw_V6Mg_30
yRtbJohxtdQ
ykxQ8vfoKag
"I'm pretty well ****ed"
Dr John All, an American academic, crawled for nine hours with a broken arm and ribs after falling down an ice crevasse in Nepal
An American academic has filmed his escape from “certain” death as he crawled in agony to safety after falling seventy feet onto a Himalayan mountain crevasse, breaking his arm, ribs and suffering severe cuts and bruises.
Dr John All, a geography lecturer from West Kentucky University who specialises in mountain science was collecting snow samples on the 23,379 feet Mount Himlung, close to Mount Everest in the Nepal Himalaya, when he fell into a deep crevasse which had been hidden by recent heavy snow.
His body ricocheted between the walls of the crevasse as he fell before he landed on a precarious ice ridge 70 feet down but more than 300 feet from the bottom. He spent the next six hours in agony crawling inch by inch with his ice axe, knowing that at any moment one slip and he would fall to a certain death.
“My body was shattered and I was in agony”, he told the Telegraph on Thursday. “My face hit one wall, my back and stomach hit the back wall and I bounced between them. My face was pretty torn up. I landed on a piece of ice at a midpoint.”
“I could have fallen another 100 metres and it’s amazing I didn’t. The entire time climbing out I knew if I slipped I would have been dead”, he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10849632/Man-films-his-escape-from-certain-death-after-plunging-down-70ft-Himalayan-crevasse.html