Glacier Escape: Trapped Under the Ice

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Two friends embark on an awe-inspiring trip into the mountains. But then, one false step sends Jim Davidson and Mike Price plummeting into a crevasse. Trapped deep beneath the surface of a glacier, surrounded by sheer walls of ice, Jim will come to realise there’s only one way he can possibly escape… Many thanks to Jim Davidson. For more about this epic story, read The Ledge: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan. A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
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0:25.0	It's June 1992. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington State.
0:30.0	A bald eagle sores through clear blue skies.
0:34.0	Spread out below is a vast wilderness of snow-capped peaks, pine forests, and sparkling alpine lakes.
0:42.0	Bright sunshine glints off the frozen face of Mount Rainier,
0:46.0	one of North America's tallest and most spectacular mountains.
0:51.0	Its awesome summit of black volcanic rock is encircled by sweeping sheets of ice,
0:58.0	glaciers that spill out into the surrounding woodland.
1:01.0	It's a picture of serenity and natural beauty. But, deep beneath the ice
1:09.7	field that covers Mount Rainier's lower slopes.
1:13.0	29-year-old Jim Davidson is fighting for his life.
1:18.0	Somehow, he has just survived a 30-meter fall.
1:22.0	He's on his back, squinting up into the darkness, trying to make
1:25.8	sense of his surroundings. Though Jim doesn't yet realize it, his best friend and climbing
1:32.0	partner, Mike Mike lies nearby. The two men were tied together with a rope.
1:37.0	The only light comes from the hole in the ice way up above, the same hole that Jim fell through with Mike close behind. But before he
1:47.0	can get his bearings, Jim feels snow falling onto his face, just a little at first, then a lot.
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