Boulder Crush: Tumbling Down a Snowfield

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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After scaling the stunning Mount Goddard, an accident leaves Gregg Hein seriously injured at four thousand metres. Things only get worse as he falls down the mountainside, hurtling towards the rocks below. Even if he can halt his descent, in his condition his prospects are bleak. And this deep in the backcountry, he’s totally alone… A Noiser production, written by Chris McDonald. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, 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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0:21.0	It's Saturday July 5th, 2014.
0:28.0	Kings Canyon National Park, California.
0:31.8	The snow covered tip of Mount Godard saws high into the cloudless sky.
0:37.0	A gust of wind whips up some of the powder.
0:41.0	The crystals hang in the crisp mountain air glimmering in the afternoon sun, before floating down the slope.
0:48.0	Far below the summit, 33-year-old Greg Hine opens his eyes regaining consciousness.
0:56.3	For a second or two he forgets where he is what's happening before reality
1:01.9	hits him like a freight train.
1:05.0	Suddenly, his senses fire and his vision focuses.
1:09.0	He is falling down the mountainside on his back,
1:12.0	skidding over the snow feet first.
1:15.3	It's not as smooth descent either.
1:17.8	He sinks into soft and slushy pockets, only then to hit patches of ice. The cold tears through his thin hiking top and burns the back of his arms.
1:28.4	Who knows how I end up on my back, but I wake up. I see a streak of red on the snow as I'm sliding down. I see it out of the corner of my eye,
1:36.0	look back, I see my leg bent in the direction that I've never seen before and I see my bone sticking
1:41.2	out. As I come back to consciousness, things have drastically changed.
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