Hanging by a Thread: Upside Down off a Mountain

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

ln the wilderness of Washington state, Dan Smith’s life literally hangs by a thread. After a terrifying accident, he’s left dangling in mid-air, mangled and bloody, with only a thin rope keeping him from certain death. There’s a 1500-foot drop below, the threat of avalanches above, and the nearest town is hours away. Getting out of this will require a truly heroic effort… 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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0:00.0	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
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0:24.0	It's June the 21st, 1998, the summer solstice.
0:30.0	It's around 1.30 PM in the state of Washington in the northwest of America.
0:34.8	A vast blue sky resides over Mount Stewart, the highest peak in the Alpine Lakes
0:41.2	wilderness.
0:49.0	Surrounded by pine forests, the mountain stands at over 9,000 feet tall. Its giant slopes elegantly marbled with patches of slowly melting snow.
0:56.5	Today, on the longest day of the year, with the sun high in the sky,
1:01.3	Mount Stewart truly is a sight to behold. But right now a disaster is
1:08.4	unfolding on its slopes. Fifteen hundred feet up its northern face, 29 year old Dan Smith finds himself groggy, disorientated and in big trouble.
1:27.0	He's taken a blow to the head and is momentarily blacked out.
1:34.0	As he comes to, something who's not right, Everything is the wrong way up. The afternoon sun is shining below him.
1:37.0	Rock fields, snow, and an endless forest seem to be suspended in the sky.
1:44.0	After a few seconds it becomes apparent that Dan is dangling upside down,
1:49.0	hanging hundreds of feet in the air.
1:53.0	A sudden jolt of fear, and he starts trying to move,
1:56.0	to get his bearings to write himself.
2:00.0	Around his waist, a climbing rope grips tightly leading to an anchor point on the mountainside
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