Pinned by a 4-Ton Boulder: Inches from Death

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kevin DePaolo is a ‘digital nomad’. He works remotely, lives in his van, and freely travels around the United States seeking new experiences. One day, he sets out to explore the desolate plains of Santa Rita Flat. But here, suddenly, the on-the-move adventurer will find himself trapped - crushed by an immense weight, unable to escape. Somehow, Kevin must find a way to hang on, as the life is squeezed out of him… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. 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,
0:05.0	like your head is full of Raspberry,
0:08.0	then you need Monzo.
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0:18.0	UK Residents Tease and C Supply.
0:30.6	It's just before 3 p.m. on December 5th, 2023, in the foothills of the Inyo Mountains near the California-Navada border.
0:33.0	It's a crisp, clear afternoon.
0:37.0	Lengthening shadows creep across the Santa Rita flat,
0:40.0	a desolate expanse of sun-baked slopes, strewn with enormous granite boulders.
0:47.3	These rocks have been here for millennia, remnants of the last Ice Age, deposited by the
0:52.3	melting of ancient
0:53.2	glaciers. They lend the landscape and eerie stillness.
0:59.5	On an isolated hillside, two small figures clamber around and over them. Tiny dots in the vast
1:07.7	quiet scenery. They are 26-year-old Kevin De Paolo and his friend Josh.
1:16.0	Using chisels, pickaxes and brushes,
1:19.0	they're digging for treasure,
1:21.0	searching for colorful minerals and ancient fossils hidden in. for physical but therapeutic activity.
1:39.1	Kevin is relatively inexperienced at this, but always up for trying new things.
1:47.2	He watches Josh, the more seasoned of the two as he hacks away beneath a massive grand piano-sized boulder
1:57.1	He knows a lot more about this stuff than I do you did start digging and pulling out some really cool rocks and so I started getting like really really stoked. It's hard work so he kind of like went off on the side for a little while to rest and that's when I started going
2:05.2	under there with like a scraper tool and basically like scraping the underside of this boulder.
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