Mountain Blizzard: Stuck in a Snow Cave

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Mark Inglis is a 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? Many thanks to Mark Inglis. For more about his life story, read No Mean Feat. A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/survivalstories Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! 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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0:29.2	It's November the 19th, 1982, in the southern Alps of New Zealand. A fierce blizzard rages across Ioraki Mount Cook National Park.
0:33.0	Battered by savage gales and gripped by sub-zero temperatures.
0:38.0	The entire mountain range has been swallowed up by a freezing vortex of snow, wind and ice.
0:44.6	Surely nothing could survive in conditions like this.
0:50.0	But 12,000 feet up Mount Cook, huddled inside a 4 by 5 foot ice cave, 23 year old Mark
0:57.2	English fights to defy the odds.
1:00.8	Incrusted in thick layers of frost, Mark tries desperately to sit still and conserve what little
1:07.9	body heat he has left.
1:10.8	Alongside Mark is his climbing partner Phil.
1:15.0	The two mountaineers have been marooned here in this cave for almost three days.
1:20.0	At first, they were confident the blizzard would pass quickly, but that confidence has waned.
1:27.0	Malnutrition and hypothermia have eaten away at their resolve.
1:32.0	Nobody's coming to rescue them in this weather.
1:34.0	They need to at least try to escape,
1:37.0	before it's too late.
1:40.0	With numb, stiffened fingers, Mark fastens his helmet and harness.
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