Incredible Tragedies - Incredible People
Pure will and sometimes luck - that must have kept these people alive. They have suffered terrible things, but have survived it. They deserve nothing more than our appreciation and respect for what they have been gone through.
It's the horror for every mountaineer: to be squeezed and no matter what you do, don't manage to escape. The climber Aron Ralston came to this situation in a hike in the Blue John Canyon in April 2003.
He had clamped his right arm under a boulder and did not get him free. He was caught for five days, trying to free his arm somehow. Nothing helped. When he was close to the end, he broke his elle and spoke and took the last step ... he cut it off. For NJF reasons I do not take a picture at this point, but I think you understand. Only ten months later he climbed a 4000m mountain, that shows that the human can be stronger than any "impossibility". As long as one wants to live, one can do everything.
It was the year 1994, the famous Marathon des Sables took place. The route leads over 230 kilometers through the Moroccan Sahara. Mauro Prosperinahm participated in it, but when a sandstorm came up, he has got lost and went in the opposite direction.
He wandered in the desert about nine days. In order not to dry out, he even drank his urine. Still, at some point, he was so desperate and did not want to die the death of the thirst, that he had cut open his pulse veins. But the blood had become so fluid that the wounds had immediately closed. At the end he was found by Algerian nomads. He had lost about 15 kilograms. Luck in the misfortune, because if his blood was not liquid because of the water deficiency, then he would have probably bleed out before someone could find hom after 9 days.
Vesna Vulovic was the only survivor of a plane crash.
On January 26, 1972, a Yugoslavian plane crashed over the Czechoslovakia. After the crash, Vesna was clinically dead for four and a half hours, but she could be revived. She laid in a coma for another 4 weeks. When she fell she broke her arms, her legs, her spine and her skull. She survived the crash as the only one of the 29 people. According to the secret service, she fell 10 kilometers high. It is said that a bomb explosion lead to the crash. It is rumored, however, that the aircraft was "inadvertently" shot by the Czechoslovak Air Force accidentally, so that she would have fell "only" some hundred meters.
The mine accident in San Josè. This misfortune happened on 05.08.2010.
There were 33 miners buried in a depth of about 700 meters. Until the buried people could be supplied with food, two weeks passed, but they could be supplied with oxygen by cracks in the mountain and by hoses. They could also drill for water and rationed the food. After 69 days the miners were all saved.
Maurice and Maralyn Bailey - 118 days on the sea.
Their yacht was hit by a sperm whale, the whale crash resulted in a hole about 30 * 45cm in the ship. This happened on March 4, 1973. The ship sank in under an hour. They saved themselves on a rescue island. Since the provisions exhausted quickly, they began to fish. As? With a safety pin. The fish were eaten raw. They also slaughtered turtles and had to withstand several shark attacks. But the worst of it was that in the distance were constantly ships, which didn't saw the pair. Then the Worstcase happened, after three months, the rescue island cracked and had to be constantly inflated. It took 118 days for a Korean fishcutter to find them.
The 120 meter fall of Thomas Magill
He is a window cleaner and just did his work as he fell out of the 39th floor of a New York skyscraper. He survived only because he fell on a parking car. It was the rear window that saved his life. He fell with his feet ahead and the most amazing is that he had "only" some fractures.
What is the chance of surviving 2 atomic bombs? Four years ago, we could have asked Tsutomu Yamaguchi this question.
In fact, he was one of 145 people who were close to both atom bombs (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and he had both survived. Both times he was about three kilometers from the hypercenter of the explosion. Because he was very close to the bottom zero point, he was probably lucky. He died at the age of 94 years of stomach cancer. - A remnant of atomic bombs?
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Thanks for reading. I hope you like it :) Excuse me if my English is not very good, but I am not a native speaker.
Sources: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro_Prosperi
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grubenungl%C3%BCck_von_San_Jos%C3%A9
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