Ep. 844: Surviving a 60-Foot Fall - Nichole Doane
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A fated 60-foot fall while canyoneering resulted in Nichole Doane being airlifted to the very hospital where she worked as a trauma nurse. While enduring a shattered pelvis, a broken back, and a spinal cord injury, she recalls the fall as the "greatest moment of her life."
A film is being made of the experience. You can learn more below.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today's episode is a, you know, just a little late. It was a holiday weekend, took a few days off. But Nicole's story, this story right here is unbelievable. Nicole fell 60 feet while canyering, which was, you know, probably supposed to be a life-ending experience. She survived, broke a lot of bones, could not walk, |
| 0:40.8 | was paralyzed initially, and had a long road to recovery, but she had survived. And she says of this |
| 0:48.9 | experience, and I quote, the greatest moment of her life. |
| 0:55.1 | And that is such a bizarre phenomenon for those of us who have never experienced anything like this. |
| 1:00.1 | But I've heard it on this show time and time again, the people who have a life-changing experience, |
| 1:04.9 | a nearly life-ending experience even, and where that experience causes long-term change in their life, |
| 1:12.9 | whether it be injury or something they can no longer do, all of them have gotten to the point |
| 1:19.3 | in their life where they say, I'm actually glad this happened to me. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's just bizarre to me. |
| 1:25.2 | It's just foreign to me. |
| 1:26.1 | I've never done anything like this but it but i tell |
| 1:28.6 | you what it doesn't make me necessarily wish something upon me or anyone else like this but it does |
| 1:33.3 | give me hope that if something like this ever does happen you can handle it and you can choose to |
| 1:40.0 | to look at it the same way someone like Nicole does, who just makes it feel like something |
| 1:48.5 | that isn't as big and isn't as dangerous and isn't as scary as it seems. |
| 1:55.0 | She's just such a positive force, such a, just a calming presence. |
| 1:58.6 | It was really fascinating and really encouraging to talk to her. |
| 2:02.2 | So I was blown away by this story and I hope you will be too. There will be a film coming out |
| 2:07.7 | about this story where the rope ends. We're going to plug some stuff for that. You can check it |
| 2:13.2 | out in the show notes just to see like a trailer and some information on it but uh Nicole thank you so much |
| 2:20.4 | for being on thanks for telling this story and by the way thank you for the t-shirt I got the |
| 2:24.6 | t-shirt as well so I will be rocking that I'm here shortly so let's go ahead and jump in |
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