Episode 91: The Thredbo disaster

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It was quiet in the rural Australian ski village of Thredbo, New South Wales, at 11:30 PM on the night of July 30th, 1997. Then the ground near Bobuck Lane began to tremble. A moment later, the hillside slid downward, taking two ski lodges containing nineteen people with it and crushing them in the chaos. It would be more than two days before rescuers who'd come to believe no one survived the tragedy heard a voice calling for help underneath the rubble. Ski instructor Stuart Diver was still alive - now it was just a matter of getting him out.

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2:00.3	Episode 91, the Threadbow disaster.
2:04.2	July 30th, 1997, 18 deceased, one injured.
2:10.1	Surviving any disaster can be difficult, both before and after being rescued.
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