Snowmobile Excursion: Olympic Athlete vs Nature

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Rulon Gardner is no stranger to adversity. At the 2000 Olympic Games he won gold in Greco-Roman wrestling, against all the odds. But in 2002, he finds himself in a different kind of fight - a monumental clash of man versus nature in the mountains of Wyoming. A series of wrong turns sees an afternoon of snowmobiling veer off the rails. With the daylight disappearing, Rulon will need every last drop of willpower if he’s to make it out of the wilderness… A Noiser production, written by Nicole Edmunds. 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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0:32.4	It's February the 14th, 2002, around 4 p.m.
0:38.5	High up in the mountains of West Wyoming,
0:41.5	31-year-old Ruland Gardner speeds along on his snowmobile.
0:46.4	He's surrounded by an expanse of whiteness,
0:49.5	a maze of snowy plains and slopes,
0:52.3	interspersed with occasional pockets of trees. A frosty wind
0:57.5	whips behind, turning his every breath to fog amidst the darkening sky. Sinister shadows
1:04.4	crawl across the ground. Despite the deteriorating conditions, Roulin plows forward, keeping his eyes peeled.
1:13.6	His big, muscular frame punches over the handlebars as he sprays fountains of snow particles with each turn.
1:20.6	He's on the lookout for his friend, from whom he's been separated for almost an hour.
1:29.5	With every passing minute, their chances of finding each other diminish.
1:34.1	What started as a day of fun and exploration is now something else entirely.
1:41.8	Roulin keeps searching.
1:44.1	He pushes up a snowy hillside, passing some more sparse trees and rough craggy rocks.
1:50.0	Then suddenly he reaches a point where he can go no further.
1:55.0	I rode my snowball up to the edge because now it's starting to get dark.
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