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“I made a mistake. I shouldn’t I shouldn’t have crossed at that point,” he said. “Because once I fell, I was on the way. And there was no stopping.”
At first he was aware enough to reach for nearby branches to try to stop himself. But then he picked up speed.
“It was basically like a luge, you know, like an Olympic luge,” Wright said, describing the feeling he initially had while falling. “It was kind of like, you know, a swervy-type path. And I was going really, really fast.”
He slipped, fell in the snow, and slid down 1100 feet. Still lucky he wasn't killed.
Yeah, when I read the title of the thread, I immediately assumed, before even reading the article, the person must have slid down the mountain side to be able to survive a 1,000 ft. "fall", because surviving a free-fall of 1,000 ft. onto a hard surface or even water is impossible, due to the blunt force trauma that will occur to your internal organs!
Yikes! He was very very lucky. Few things as scary as an involuntary glissade without an ice axe! At least the guy acknowledges how he contributed to the mishap. That speaks well of his level of experience.
“I made a mistake. I shouldn’t I shouldn’t have crossed at that point,” he said. “Because once I fell, I was on the way. And there was no stopping.”
At first he was aware enough to reach for nearby branches to try to stop himself. But then he picked up speed.
“It was basically like a luge, you know, like an Olympic luge,” Wright said, describing the feeling he initially had while falling. “It was kind of like, you know, a swervy-type path. And I was going really, really fast.”
It sounds like he was reasonably well prepared, but I have to wonder why he didn't have an ice axe with him. Branches aren't going to stop you from falling off a mountain.
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