Entertaining, if brief, little summaries of some fantastic survival stories.Joe Simpson and Simon Yates attempted to scale the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In the midst of a blizzard, Simpson fell and broke his leg leaving it to Yates to get the duo down to safety. Yates lowered them bit-by-bit until their anchor slipped and left them dangling precariously. After a silent hour of deliberation, Yates presumed Simpson to be dead and cut his rope. Simpson fell onto an ice brige below where despite massive injury, dehydration and hypothermia, he managed to crawl five miles over the course of three days where he was reunited with Yates at base camp.
No comments:
Post a Comment