Introducing: Real Survival Stories - Mountain Blizzard

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NOISER

Drama, History, Fiction, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Noiser presents a brand-new podcast. Real Survival Stories brings you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situations. In this taster episode, we’ll meet Mark Inglis the search & rescue mountaineer. It’s his job to save other people. But on a routine practice mission, he’ll find himself in deep trouble. Caught in a whiteout halfway up New Zealand’s highest peak, Mark and his colleague Phil take refuge in a tiny snow cave. But as the hours tick by into days, how long can they hunker down before their bodies, and minds, give out? Stay put and wait for help that might never come? Or take their chances in the fearsome snowstorm? If you enjoy this taster episode, search ‘Real Survival Stories’ in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes every Thursday. There are more epic tales live now and waiting for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	High listeners, it's John Cuban here.
0:02.3	Today, I want to introduce you to a brand new podcast from Noiser.
0:05.6	It's called Real Survival Stories.
0:07.8	Real Survival Stories brings you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary
0:12.2	situations.
0:13.7	People suddenly force to fight for their lives.
0:16.9	Stranded in the desert, lost in the jungle, marooned in the mountains, shipwrecked on the
0:22.2	high seas.
0:23.6	These individuals had everything against them, but even then, they refused to give in.
0:28.6	If you enjoy this taste or episode, search Real Survival Stories in your podcast app
0:32.8	and hit follow to get new episodes every Thursday, or listen at Noiser.com.
0:40.0	It's November the 19th, 1982 in the southern Alps of New Zealand.
0:45.3	A fierce blizzard rages across Ayuraki Mount Cook National Park, battered by savage gales
0:51.8	and gripped by sub-zero temperatures.
0:54.3	The entire mountain range has been swallowed up by a freezing vortex of snow, wind and ice.
1:00.8	Surely nothing could survive in conditions like this.
1:06.3	But 12,000 feet up Mount Cook huddled inside a four by five foot ice cave, 23-year-old
1:13.0	Mark English fights to defy the odds.
1:17.7	Incrusted in thick layers of frost, Mark tries desperately to sit still and conserve what
1:23.7	little body he has left.
1:26.8	Alongside Mark, he's his climbing partner, Phil.
1:31.7	The two mountaineers have been marooned here in this cave for almost three days.
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