Miracle on Mt. Hood Part 2

Out Alive from Backpacker

Louisa Albanese

Places & Travel, Sports, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: In every story we tell on this show, there is an element of the miraculous, someone who defies the odds and lives through a seemingly impossible situation in the wild, but we don't all see miracles the same way. For some, a miracle is falling off a cliff and being lucky enough to get caught by the branches of a welcoming tree. Or, running from a raging forest fire when, just in time, a rainstorm saves the day. But for others, miracles, aren't about luck or random natural occurrences. They are acts of divine providence. For Mary Grimm, coming so close to death in the mountains and making it back was exactly that. This season of Out Alive is brought to you by Stillhouse, the official spirit of adventure. Stillhouse makes award-winning bourbon, vodka, and whiskeys that come in unbreakable 100% stainless steel cans… because the good times go where glass can’t follow. Learn more at stillhouse.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the second part of this two-part episode of Miracle on Mount Hood.
0:12.6	If you haven't already listened to part one, pause here and do that now.
0:17.4	Also a warning, this episode includes discussion of suicidal thoughts.
0:27.9	I made a decision to survive in that survival mode.
0:31.3	The idea of dying wasn't in my head.
0:33.5	I knew immediately it was the worst case scenario.
0:35.6	I was in a fight for my life situation.
0:37.4	Whenever you walk out on these trails, you're in their house.
0:42.2	I'm Louisa Almanes, and you're listening to Out Alive by Backpacker.
0:46.2	In each episode of this podcast, we'll bring you real stories of real people who survived
0:51.3	the unsurvivable.
0:52.3	I saw the rope sift through the rappel ring, and I couldn't do anything.
0:56.7	Learn what went wrong, what went right, and how you can escape if the worst case scenario
1:01.2	happens to you.
1:02.8	There is no way we would find anybody alive.
1:11.9	The spring of 2013, college student Mary Grimm became lost in a white out on Oregon's
1:17.9	Mount Hood.
1:19.4	After hiking through snow and ice for some 16 hours, she fell nearly 40 feet on a steep
1:26.4	slope, pinballing off trees and badly injuring her leg.
1:31.2	She was alone, with little food and desperately under-equipped for the conditions.
1:37.4	Nobody knew where she was.
1:39.0	Her cell phone didn't have reception on the mountain, but she had a camera that she used
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