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Real Survival Stories

Bolt From the Blue: Suspended Over a Chasm

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An extreme expedition, an unexpected storm, and an unlikely bolt from the blue all combine to create an extraordinary situation. Rod Liberal and a group of fellow climbers set out to summit Grand Teton in Wyoming. But during the final ascent, something shocking happens which changes everything in a flash. Suddenly, Rod will find himself perilously suspended, with a deadly drop below…   A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.   Written by Lewis Georgeson | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley.   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 support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As a raider scavenging a derelict world, you settle into an underground settlement.

0:08.0

But now you must return to the surface, where arc machines roam.

0:15.0

If you're brave enough, who knows what you might find?

0:20.0

Arcaders, a multiplayer extraction adventure video game.

0:23.6

Buy now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and PC.

0:28.6

Peggy 16.

0:33.6

It's July the 26th, 2003.

0:36.6

On a mountain in Wyoming, a major storm has just passed across the upper slopes.

0:43.3

Wind whistles over the peak and the sky is austere and overcast.

0:49.3

A low static hum can still be heard in the air, and the smell of summer rain remains, the lingering

0:56.0

signs of the tempest that just assaulted this mountain.

1:00.0

Now, in the aftermath of the storm, there is an almost eerie calm.

1:07.0

It's just gone four o'clock in the afternoon. What sun is left is hidden behind grey, opaque cloud cover.

1:16.3

In the gathering gloom, close to the summit, a tiny shape can be seen swinging against the

1:22.3

vast, rocky mountain face.

1:26.5

It's the silhouette of a man dangling at the end of the climbing road.

1:31.3

But there is something not quite right about this image. The body is contorted, grotesquely

1:38.2

bent out of shape, folded backwards around the pivot of the rope, limbs hanging limp either side.

1:46.0

Something has gone horribly wrong.

1:49.0

I just remember my head being really close to my foot for some reason and unfolded in half.

1:58.0

My left arm is dangling. I have no feeling in it.

2:01.6

I have no feeling in my legs and my back hurts.

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