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Real Survival Stories

Alpine Adventure: First Date on a Mountain

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Rachel and Jeremy head to Switzerland to explore a notorious peak in the Alps. They’ve planned meticulously... but Mother Nature has other ideas. Marooned 3,000 metres up, they are at the mercy of lightning, snow and howling gales. With the weather too extreme to coordinate a rescue, this first date threatens to become their last day… A Noiser production, written by Nicole Edmunds. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Steakhouse Stack, with two layers of delicious beef, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce.

0:04.5

It's the kind of McDonald's you take photos off to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.

0:08.2

Sure, you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like.

0:11.6

The Steakhouse Stack. It's McDonald's, and then some.

0:15.6

Available to the 17th of June, served from 11 a.m., subjects of availability, participating in restaurants only.

0:22.6

It's October the October 4, 2003.

0:25.6

4,000 meters above sea level on the Swiss-Italian border sits one of the highest peaks in the Alps, Piz Badil.

0:35.6

Rising from the rocky ground into the clouds, the mountain is an awe-inspiring spectacle.

0:42.3

It's also something of a pilgrimage site for adventurists who dream of scaling its slopes and reaching the summit's dizzying heights.

0:52.3

Today, however, on this autumn afternoon, conditions on the mountain are treacherous.

0:57.0

A devastating storm has broken out. Lightning flashes above the peaks as thunder echoes through the valleys below.

1:06.0

Biting winds swirl around the ice-capped rocks and snow falls in heavy flakes.

1:12.6

The sky alters from blue to grey as moody clouds deposit a thick, impenetrable mist.

1:20.6

And within this mayhem, cloaked in a blanket of fog and almost buried in the snow,

1:26.6

are two individuals

1:29.3

34-year-old Rachel Kelsey and her date Jeremy

1:38.2

As far as first dates go, this one's been bumpy

1:41.4

caught out by the alpine weather the mountaineers are fighting for their lives.

1:45.0

I can see, you know, there's this man who is so big and so strong, and he's now being

1:52.0

just blowing around like a sort of a little ping pong ball on water.

1:57.0

And it's almost as if this mountain has now unleashed itself.

2:00.0

It's like a huge, huge animal.

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