Snowboard Misadventure: Off-Piste Odyssey (Part 2 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We return to Eric LeMarque, whose ordeal on Mammoth Mountain is far from over. Before he can even think about navigating his way to safety, he has to survive the raging torrent he’s fallen into. And it’s not just the icy clutches of the river. There’s also the 80-foot waterfall that lies downstream… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For more on Eric’s story, read 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain. 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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0:28.8	It's midday on Saturday, February 7th, 2004. In the frozen heights of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California. All is still. After a week of extreme blizzards, the entire
0:37.2	range lies submerged beneath deep flurries. Only the tops of the tallest pine trees are visible.
0:44.0	Their lower branches slumped beneath the powdery drifts.
0:48.6	In this silent void of snow, fog, and ice, nothing stares.
0:55.0	Well, almost nothing.
0:59.0	At the bottom of a gully, a fast-flowing river of crystal clear alpine water cuts a
1:04.8	course between two snowbanks. And in the middle of it, 34-year-old Eric Lemark
1:10.7	battles against the freezing current.
1:16.0	I'm just scrambling to the side to try to get out of there
1:20.4	because my foot's getting twisted. I was up to maybe my waist in water and I'm just trying to get to the side and get out of it and make sure that I've got my board and everything else with me and not to get pummeled by those rocks that I was getting
1:37.1	pulled into as the water was shoving me forward.
1:41.1	Kling into his... forward.
1:48.0	Clinging to his snowboard, it's all Eric can do to stay upright. My board falls perpendicular and it yanks me down the river and I'm getting hit in the shins with
1:56.9	rocks and it's hurting. He tries to stop himself by digging his feet into the rocky bed, but the torrent keeps sweeping him along, and the further downstream Eric goes, the closer he gets to the real danger.
2:16.3	Above the churn of the river is a distant rumbling drone, the sound of the raging 80-foot waterfall that lies just around the corner.
2:25.0	On this occasion, fortune favors him.
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