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Top 10 AMAZING Stories of Survival! From getting lost in the Australian Outback to surviving a 4000 ft plunge through the air…stay tuned to number 1 to find out who survived over 2 months by resorting to cannibalism!
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
00:00
From getting lost in the Australian Outback to surviving a 4000 ft plunge through the
00:05
air…stay tuned to number 1 to find out who survived over 2 months by resorting to cannibalism!
00:22
Number 10: 9 weeks in the Australian Outback.
00:26
From time to time someone adventurous individual wants to embark on an extraordinary survival
00:31
mission that will push them to the limits, however on other occasions, some individuals
00:36
suffer mental health conditions that can sometimes cause people to make decisions without fully
00:42
thinking it through.
00:43
Matthew Allen was unfortunately the latter.
00:46
This 18-year old teenager walked out of the family home, north of Sydney, Australia, on
00:50
the 27th of November 2013 and wasn’t seen again for two months!
00:56
Although many feared the young teenager didn’t make it, he was miraculously found by two
01:00
hikers.
01:01
But this ordeal had left its mark on the teenager.
01:04
He was found covered in leeches and mosquito bites, and he only weighed around 6 stone
01:09
(which equates to half of his original body weight).
01:12
He was also disorientated and partially blind.
01:15
During the 9 weeks he was missing, he had survived on very little water and food, and
01:20
no shelter and endured a record-breaking heat wave.
01:23
It is a true miracle that he survived, and even more fortunate that he was found.
01:28
Thankfully, he’s now at home with this family.
01:32
Number 9: Falling 4,000ft.
01:35
You’d be forgiven for thinking the next entry on this list is a lie, but it’s not, instead…it’s
01:41
an absolute miracle!
01:44
Lynda Harding, a student and sky-diving fanatic from California, was on a trip of a lifetime
01:49
with friends when the unbelievable event happened.
01:52
After jumping out of the plane at 8,500ft, the worst possible thing that could happen
01:57
to a sky-diver happened when poor Lynda’s parachute failed to open.
02:02
Though sky-divers also have a reserve parachute when they jump, the parachute cord got tangled
02:06
in the reserve which left Lynda falling at around 70mph for 40 seconds before crashing
02:14
to the ground.
02:15
By some miracle, Lynda survived and sustained only broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken
02:20
nose, muscular back injuries and a concussion.
02:23
The student, who studied at Hull University, UK, was on a trip to America when the incident
02:29
happened and was unconscious for four days after the fall.
02:32
Doctors believe drag, her unconscious state as she fell, the semi-soft landing on grass,
02:37
and the fact that she fell on her side, all contributed to this miraculous escape from
02:41
what should have been an un-survivable fall.
02:44
Rather surprisingly, she continued to sky-dive once she’d made a full recovery.
02:50
Number 8: Plane Crash in the Alaskan Wilderness.
02:54
This is the first of three plane crashes included on this list, but is the shortest ordeal of
02:59
the three.
03:00
This entry involves a family who was flying to begin their new life in the rural Yukon
03:04
River village 350 miles northwest of Anchorage when their plane hit a low mountain peak.
03:11
When the plane crashed the family of four were in a desperate state, with broken bones,
03:16
internal injuries and a pregnant mother.
03:18
With the fear of wolves and not being found a constant worry on the father’s mind, at
03:23
one point he gave up hope, but thankfully, they were found 15 hours after the crash.
03:30
Number 7: Running through the desert.
03:33
It’s time to meet Italian runner Mauro Properi, who set out to complete a brutal six-day run
03:39
in the Sahara desert.
03:40
Yes, that’s right, there are some people out there who think it’s a good challenge to try
03:45
running a race in blistering heat and extremely dry and dangerous conditions.
03:50
The run started well, and by the fourth day, Properi was making good-time, however, he
03:55
soon found himself in the middle of a prolonged, 8-hour sandstorm that left him lost and alone.
04:02
And a desert is not somewhere you want to be lost!
04:05
After failing to get the attention of two passing planes, and with very little supplies,
04:10
the runner was left with the difficult challenge of surviving in this hostile environment.
04:15
As we’ve highlighted in a recent video about difficult places to live, humans have adapted
04:20
to live in many challenging environments, but it’s completely different when you’re
04:24
not used to the environment.
04:27
Nevertheless, Properi did manage to survive for 10 days by drinking his own distilled
04:32
urine and eating bats.
04:35
Number 6: 69 days trapped underground.
04:39
The next entry on this list might leave any viewers who suffer from claustrophobia wanted
04:45
to turn away now.
04:46
Just imagine being entombed nearly half a mile underground and slowly starving and suffocating
04:52
in extreme heat!
04:53
Well, that’s the unfortunate situation that 33 Chilean miners found themselves in back
04:59
in 2010.
05:00
For 17 days after the initial incident happened, authorities assumed the miners were dead.
05:06
That was…until a rescuers drill penetrated their chamber and they managed to attach a
05:11
note to it.
05:12
To survive, the miners had to drink really filthy water that was used to cool the drills,
05:17
and only had 93 packets of biscuits; one can of salmon, one of peaches, one of peas, around
05:25
10 bottles of water and 18 cans of tuna.
05:28
However, 5 days after the first contact was made, they rescuers did manage to widen the
05:33
tunnel to pass down food and medical supplies.
05:37
Nevertheless, this survival ordeal is one that no one would want to be in!
05:43
Number 5: Plane crash in the Peruvian rainforest.
05:47
The next entry on this list is another that involved falling from a considerable height,
05:51
but this time, it wasn’t an intentional jump.
05:54
Instead, it was an accident caused by lightning.
05:57
In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was flying across the Peruvian rainforest when the LANSA Flight
06:04
508 was hit by lightning when it flew into a storm.
06:07
When the plane went into a nose-dive, Juliane soon found herself ripped from the plane,
06:12
but still strapped into her seat as she fell into the rainforest below.
06:17
As the only survivor of the flight, after the other 91 people on board died when the
06:21
plane broke into pieces two miles above the rainforest, she found herself all alone, lost
06:28
in the rainforest.
06:29
By some miracle, Juliane survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, some deep cuts
06:34
on her and a ruptured ligament in her knee, the latter of which she didn’t even realize
06:39
until later.
06:40
Although she’d survived the fall, and could hear the search planes looking for survivors,
06:44
the thick canopy meant they couldn’t see her, so she had to find another way to survive.
06:49
After 10 days on walking along creeks and rivers, she soon found a hut where she administered
06:54
first aid to herself.
06:56
The wound on her upper right arm was infested with maggots, so she poured some gasoline
07:01
over the wound and pulled about 30 of the bugs from her arm.
07:06
She was later found by some men who took her back to civilization where she learned the
07:10
fate of the rest of the passengers, including her own mother.
07:16
Number 4: Lost at Sea.
07:18
We have stories about plane crashes, deadly falls, deserts, underground and forests, but
07:25
we’ve yet to include one about someone being lost at sea.
07:28
It should be said that this is only one of many stories about people who’ve been lost
07:34
at sea.
07:35
Steven Callahan was on a solo expedition in his sailboat Napoleon Solo when it was bumped
07:40
by a whale during the night and slowly sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
07:45
Poor Callahan found he was adrift in the ocean.
07:47
Rescue operations are difficult at the best of times, but it is incredibly difficult to
07:52
find someone lost at sea.
07:54
Even today, with advances in technology, some people (and even planes) are never found once
08:00
they’ve been lost at sea.
08:02
Over the course of 76 days and floating around 1800 miles, Callahan survived the blaring
08:09
sun, dehydration and even shark encounters to thankfully be found by some fisherman who
08:14
rescued him.
08:16
Number 3: Fleeing from Nazis.
08:19
The next story is the oldest on this list and in centered on the action on Baalsrud,
08:24
a young instrument maker who was helping the anti-Nazi resistance in Norway during the
08:29
Second World War when the boat he was on was attacked by German soldiers.
08:34
After everyone else on board the boat was killed, Baalsrud managed to dive into the
08:38
water to make his escape.
08:39
With only one boot and sock and with one missing toe (which had been shot off), he managed
08:45
to swim to the Norwegian cost where he was rescued by two girls on the beach.
08:50
But that wasn’t the end of his ordeal.
08:52
He then had to reach safety in Sweden.
08:55
Along this journey, he faced even more hardship and bad lucky.
08:58
At one point he fell 300 feet, was left blind, severely concussed, and wandering in the snow
09:04
for days, suffering with hallucinations.
09:07
And that’s still not even the end of his story, but we don’t have enough time to discuss it
09:12
in more detail here.
09:15
Number 2: Climbing Siula Grande.
09:19
In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates embarked on a journey to climb the Siula Grande, via
09:24
the, to date, unclimbed west face, only to face disaster on their way back down.
09:30
While descending, Simpson fell and broke his right leg and heel…not an inquiry you want
09:35
to have when you’re still less than halfway down the mountain!
09:39
Facing the difficult challenged of getting Simpson down the mountain, Yates used ropes
09:43
to lower Simonson down the mountain in stages, something which took a lot of energy for both
09:48
of them, and caused Simpson significant pain when his legged kept catching on the snow
09:54
and ice.
09:56
When you’d think things couldn’t get any worse, in bad weather, Yates managed to lower Simpson
10:01
over the edge of an unseen cliff edge.
10:04
It soon became clear that Yates was not able to pull him back up, and Simpson was unsure
10:09
of the decision Yates would take.
10:11
After a while, Simpson found himself falling 50 feet into a crevasse below him.
10:16
Looking up at the rope, he realized Yates was forced to cut it.
10:20
While Simpson was aware that Yates had likely done it to stop him from also being pulled
10:24
off the mountain, it didn’t leave him in a good situation after he survived the fall,
10:29
and I’m sure it put a strain on their friendship.
10:32
With a broken leg and heel, Simpson still managed to climb out of the crevasse and even
10:37
reach the base camp two days later…just in time, too, because Yates and another individual,
10:43
both assumed Simpson didn’t make it, and were planning on leaving the camp permanently.
10:48
Before we get to number 1, take a moment to like this video, and…don’t forget to subscribe!
10:54
Number 1: Air Force Flight 571.
10:56
The next entry is a story that shocked people when it came to light.
11:01
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was carrying 45 people when it crashed in the Andes on
11:08
the 13th of October 1972, which happened to be a Friday…talk about bad luck on Friday
11:15
the 13th!
11:17
Not all the passengers survived the flight with more than a quarter dying during the
11:20
crash and several others in the days after the accident.
11:24
The situation got even worse when an avalanche killed a further 8 people when it swept over
11:29
the wreckage the survivor were using as shelter.
11:32
The survivors had very little food and in an act of desperation, they ate the bodies
11:38
of the other dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow.
11:42
Many people have condemned these acts of cannibalism, but you have to remember that these survivors
11:48
were stuck in a harsh environment, some 3,600 meters up, with little food and no source
11:54
of heat.
11:55
These were desperate times, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
12:00
The survivors managed to survive for more than two months until they were rescued on
12:04
the 23rd of December, a significant time after the search for survivors had been abandoned.
12:10
It was only by chance that they were found after 2 of the passengers embarked on a 10-day
12:16
trek across the Andes to find help, and luckily came across Chilean Serigo Catalan.
12:22
The whole ordeal can be seen in the 1993 movie “Alive.”
12:27
Tell us about your favorite survival stories in the comments below and…take care!
—
This post was previously published on YouTube.
The post Top 10 AMAZING Stories of Survival! appeared first on The Good Men Project.
#AmazingNature #StoriesOfSurvival #Zero2Hero #Environment #Environment
Top 10 AMAZING Stories of Survival! From getting lost in the Australian Outback to surviving a 4000 ft plunge through the air…stay tuned to number 1 to find out who survived over 2 months by resorting to cannibalism!
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—
Transcript Provided by YouTube:
00:00
From getting lost in the Australian Outback to surviving a 4000 ft plunge through the
00:05
air…stay tuned to number 1 to find out who survived over 2 months by resorting to cannibalism!
00:22
Number 10: 9 weeks in the Australian Outback.
00:26
From time to time someone adventurous individual wants to embark on an extraordinary survival
00:31
mission that will push them to the limits, however on other occasions, some individuals
00:36
suffer mental health conditions that can sometimes cause people to make decisions without fully
00:42
thinking it through.
00:43
Matthew Allen was unfortunately the latter.
00:46
This 18-year old teenager walked out of the family home, north of Sydney, Australia, on
00:50
the 27th of November 2013 and wasn’t seen again for two months!
00:56
Although many feared the young teenager didn’t make it, he was miraculously found by two
01:00
hikers.
01:01
But this ordeal had left its mark on the teenager.
01:04
He was found covered in leeches and mosquito bites, and he only weighed around 6 stone
01:09
(which equates to half of his original body weight).
01:12
He was also disorientated and partially blind.
01:15
During the 9 weeks he was missing, he had survived on very little water and food, and
01:20
no shelter and endured a record-breaking heat wave.
01:23
It is a true miracle that he survived, and even more fortunate that he was found.
01:28
Thankfully, he’s now at home with this family.
01:32
Number 9: Falling 4,000ft.
01:35
You’d be forgiven for thinking the next entry on this list is a lie, but it’s not, instead…it’s
01:41
an absolute miracle!
01:44
Lynda Harding, a student and sky-diving fanatic from California, was on a trip of a lifetime
01:49
with friends when the unbelievable event happened.
01:52
After jumping out of the plane at 8,500ft, the worst possible thing that could happen
01:57
to a sky-diver happened when poor Lynda’s parachute failed to open.
02:02
Though sky-divers also have a reserve parachute when they jump, the parachute cord got tangled
02:06
in the reserve which left Lynda falling at around 70mph for 40 seconds before crashing
02:14
to the ground.
02:15
By some miracle, Lynda survived and sustained only broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken
02:20
nose, muscular back injuries and a concussion.
02:23
The student, who studied at Hull University, UK, was on a trip to America when the incident
02:29
happened and was unconscious for four days after the fall.
02:32
Doctors believe drag, her unconscious state as she fell, the semi-soft landing on grass,
02:37
and the fact that she fell on her side, all contributed to this miraculous escape from
02:41
what should have been an un-survivable fall.
02:44
Rather surprisingly, she continued to sky-dive once she’d made a full recovery.
02:50
Number 8: Plane Crash in the Alaskan Wilderness.
02:54
This is the first of three plane crashes included on this list, but is the shortest ordeal of
02:59
the three.
03:00
This entry involves a family who was flying to begin their new life in the rural Yukon
03:04
River village 350 miles northwest of Anchorage when their plane hit a low mountain peak.
03:11
When the plane crashed the family of four were in a desperate state, with broken bones,
03:16
internal injuries and a pregnant mother.
03:18
With the fear of wolves and not being found a constant worry on the father’s mind, at
03:23
one point he gave up hope, but thankfully, they were found 15 hours after the crash.
03:30
Number 7: Running through the desert.
03:33
It’s time to meet Italian runner Mauro Properi, who set out to complete a brutal six-day run
03:39
in the Sahara desert.
03:40
Yes, that’s right, there are some people out there who think it’s a good challenge to try
03:45
running a race in blistering heat and extremely dry and dangerous conditions.
03:50
The run started well, and by the fourth day, Properi was making good-time, however, he
03:55
soon found himself in the middle of a prolonged, 8-hour sandstorm that left him lost and alone.
04:02
And a desert is not somewhere you want to be lost!
04:05
After failing to get the attention of two passing planes, and with very little supplies,
04:10
the runner was left with the difficult challenge of surviving in this hostile environment.
04:15
As we’ve highlighted in a recent video about difficult places to live, humans have adapted
04:20
to live in many challenging environments, but it’s completely different when you’re
04:24
not used to the environment.
04:27
Nevertheless, Properi did manage to survive for 10 days by drinking his own distilled
04:32
urine and eating bats.
04:35
Number 6: 69 days trapped underground.
04:39
The next entry on this list might leave any viewers who suffer from claustrophobia wanted
04:45
to turn away now.
04:46
Just imagine being entombed nearly half a mile underground and slowly starving and suffocating
04:52
in extreme heat!
04:53
Well, that’s the unfortunate situation that 33 Chilean miners found themselves in back
04:59
in 2010.
05:00
For 17 days after the initial incident happened, authorities assumed the miners were dead.
05:06
That was…until a rescuers drill penetrated their chamber and they managed to attach a
05:11
note to it.
05:12
To survive, the miners had to drink really filthy water that was used to cool the drills,
05:17
and only had 93 packets of biscuits; one can of salmon, one of peaches, one of peas, around
05:25
10 bottles of water and 18 cans of tuna.
05:28
However, 5 days after the first contact was made, they rescuers did manage to widen the
05:33
tunnel to pass down food and medical supplies.
05:37
Nevertheless, this survival ordeal is one that no one would want to be in!
05:43
Number 5: Plane crash in the Peruvian rainforest.
05:47
The next entry on this list is another that involved falling from a considerable height,
05:51
but this time, it wasn’t an intentional jump.
05:54
Instead, it was an accident caused by lightning.
05:57
In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was flying across the Peruvian rainforest when the LANSA Flight
06:04
508 was hit by lightning when it flew into a storm.
06:07
When the plane went into a nose-dive, Juliane soon found herself ripped from the plane,
06:12
but still strapped into her seat as she fell into the rainforest below.
06:17
As the only survivor of the flight, after the other 91 people on board died when the
06:21
plane broke into pieces two miles above the rainforest, she found herself all alone, lost
06:28
in the rainforest.
06:29
By some miracle, Juliane survived the fall with only a broken collarbone, some deep cuts
06:34
on her and a ruptured ligament in her knee, the latter of which she didn’t even realize
06:39
until later.
06:40
Although she’d survived the fall, and could hear the search planes looking for survivors,
06:44
the thick canopy meant they couldn’t see her, so she had to find another way to survive.
06:49
After 10 days on walking along creeks and rivers, she soon found a hut where she administered
06:54
first aid to herself.
06:56
The wound on her upper right arm was infested with maggots, so she poured some gasoline
07:01
over the wound and pulled about 30 of the bugs from her arm.
07:06
She was later found by some men who took her back to civilization where she learned the
07:10
fate of the rest of the passengers, including her own mother.
07:16
Number 4: Lost at Sea.
07:18
We have stories about plane crashes, deadly falls, deserts, underground and forests, but
07:25
we’ve yet to include one about someone being lost at sea.
07:28
It should be said that this is only one of many stories about people who’ve been lost
07:34
at sea.
07:35
Steven Callahan was on a solo expedition in his sailboat Napoleon Solo when it was bumped
07:40
by a whale during the night and slowly sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
07:45
Poor Callahan found he was adrift in the ocean.
07:47
Rescue operations are difficult at the best of times, but it is incredibly difficult to
07:52
find someone lost at sea.
07:54
Even today, with advances in technology, some people (and even planes) are never found once
08:00
they’ve been lost at sea.
08:02
Over the course of 76 days and floating around 1800 miles, Callahan survived the blaring
08:09
sun, dehydration and even shark encounters to thankfully be found by some fisherman who
08:14
rescued him.
08:16
Number 3: Fleeing from Nazis.
08:19
The next story is the oldest on this list and in centered on the action on Baalsrud,
08:24
a young instrument maker who was helping the anti-Nazi resistance in Norway during the
08:29
Second World War when the boat he was on was attacked by German soldiers.
08:34
After everyone else on board the boat was killed, Baalsrud managed to dive into the
08:38
water to make his escape.
08:39
With only one boot and sock and with one missing toe (which had been shot off), he managed
08:45
to swim to the Norwegian cost where he was rescued by two girls on the beach.
08:50
But that wasn’t the end of his ordeal.
08:52
He then had to reach safety in Sweden.
08:55
Along this journey, he faced even more hardship and bad lucky.
08:58
At one point he fell 300 feet, was left blind, severely concussed, and wandering in the snow
09:04
for days, suffering with hallucinations.
09:07
And that’s still not even the end of his story, but we don’t have enough time to discuss it
09:12
in more detail here.
09:15
Number 2: Climbing Siula Grande.
09:19
In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates embarked on a journey to climb the Siula Grande, via
09:24
the, to date, unclimbed west face, only to face disaster on their way back down.
09:30
While descending, Simpson fell and broke his right leg and heel…not an inquiry you want
09:35
to have when you’re still less than halfway down the mountain!
09:39
Facing the difficult challenged of getting Simpson down the mountain, Yates used ropes
09:43
to lower Simonson down the mountain in stages, something which took a lot of energy for both
09:48
of them, and caused Simpson significant pain when his legged kept catching on the snow
09:54
and ice.
09:56
When you’d think things couldn’t get any worse, in bad weather, Yates managed to lower Simpson
10:01
over the edge of an unseen cliff edge.
10:04
It soon became clear that Yates was not able to pull him back up, and Simpson was unsure
10:09
of the decision Yates would take.
10:11
After a while, Simpson found himself falling 50 feet into a crevasse below him.
10:16
Looking up at the rope, he realized Yates was forced to cut it.
10:20
While Simpson was aware that Yates had likely done it to stop him from also being pulled
10:24
off the mountain, it didn’t leave him in a good situation after he survived the fall,
10:29
and I’m sure it put a strain on their friendship.
10:32
With a broken leg and heel, Simpson still managed to climb out of the crevasse and even
10:37
reach the base camp two days later…just in time, too, because Yates and another individual,
10:43
both assumed Simpson didn’t make it, and were planning on leaving the camp permanently.
10:48
Before we get to number 1, take a moment to like this video, and…don’t forget to subscribe!
10:54
Number 1: Air Force Flight 571.
10:56
The next entry is a story that shocked people when it came to light.
11:01
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was carrying 45 people when it crashed in the Andes on
11:08
the 13th of October 1972, which happened to be a Friday…talk about bad luck on Friday
11:15
the 13th!
11:17
Not all the passengers survived the flight with more than a quarter dying during the
11:20
crash and several others in the days after the accident.
11:24
The situation got even worse when an avalanche killed a further 8 people when it swept over
11:29
the wreckage the survivor were using as shelter.
11:32
The survivors had very little food and in an act of desperation, they ate the bodies
11:38
of the other dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow.
11:42
Many people have condemned these acts of cannibalism, but you have to remember that these survivors
11:48
were stuck in a harsh environment, some 3,600 meters up, with little food and no source
11:54
of heat.
11:55
These were desperate times, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
12:00
The survivors managed to survive for more than two months until they were rescued on
12:04
the 23rd of December, a significant time after the search for survivors had been abandoned.
12:10
It was only by chance that they were found after 2 of the passengers embarked on a 10-day
12:16
trek across the Andes to find help, and luckily came across Chilean Serigo Catalan.
12:22
The whole ordeal can be seen in the 1993 movie “Alive.”
12:27
Tell us about your favorite survival stories in the comments below and…take care!
—
This post was previously published on YouTube.
The post Top 10 AMAZING Stories of Survival! appeared first on The Good Men Project.
#AmazingNature #StoriesOfSurvival #Zero2Hero #Environment #Environment