Falling Into a Mountain: Pulverising Impact

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A science professor leads a research trip to a remote corner of the Himalayas. But one morning, John All experiences first-hand the dangers of working at the top of the world. A hidden danger in the snow thrusts him into a desperate scenario. Falling into a freezing cold chasm that sinks into the very bowels of the mountain, John’s only hope is an audacious, elaborate and incredibly dangerous self-rescue… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Joe Viner | 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 Dorry Macaulay, George Tapp | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. Go to https://surfshark.com/survival or use code SURVIVAL at checkout to get 4 extra months of SurfsharkVPN! 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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0:34.6	It's May the 22nd, 2014.
0:44.3	In a remote corner of the Himalayas, close to the border of Nepal and Tibet, a jagged mountain chain serrates the cobalt sky. It's a bright cloudless day, and the sun's glare off the snow is blinding.
0:50.3	Around 20,000 feet up, on a wide, wind-swept plateau, a tent has been erected on the frozen ground.
1:00.0	Inside, an unzipped sleeping bag, a head torch, a coffee percolator balanced atop a camping stove, unused.
1:10.0	Clearly, whoever was just here didn't plan on being gone for long.
1:13.6	Outside the entrance of the tent, a set of footprints leads off at a slight angle,
1:19.6	weaving through the deep, soft powder.
1:23.6	The tracks are fresh, not yet covered over by new deposits.
1:28.3	They stretch on for a short distance until abruptly they stop,
1:34.3	vanishing into a tiny dark hole in the snow.
1:38.3	A pinprick of black in the endless white.
1:42.3	It's the opening to a deep, hidden crevasse, pinprick of black in the endless white.
1:51.2	It's the opening to a deep, hidden crevasse, where 70 feet beneath the surface down in the bowels of the glacier.
1:54.7	44-year-old John Alll lies in a crumpled heap.
2:00.8	I'm just laying there on my side
2:03.6	and I'm on top of the arm that I just ripped out.
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