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The Girl Who Fell Two Miles and Survived

ESPN Daily

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Sports

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ten years ago, during a skydiving accident, Emma Carey and her instructor plummeted some 14,000 feet into an empty cow pasture in Switzerland. Miraculously, both survived the more than two-mile fall.  Our own Ryan Hockensmith had the chance to speak with Emma about that experience. And to find out how she overcame the nightmare, processed her recovery, came to terms with the miracle — and used her story to inspire others, without letting it define her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you know doing this kind of work sometimes you're presented with opportunities to do things

0:05.1

that are kind of crazy but I couldn't I couldn't jump out of a I don't think I want to jump

0:09.9

out of a plane have you ever jumped out of a plane right I have not and I will not be jumping out of a plane. Have you ever jumped out of a plane? I have not and I will not be jumping out of

0:14.4

a plane anytime soon. I just feel like I mean don't most of us roll out of bed feeling like we're already

0:18.7

plummeting to Earth for the day. I don't need to pay a guy to take me up and shove me out of the side of a plane.

0:25.3

So I don't think I would do it.

0:26.8

And I would tell you like this story did not help me feel like I should go for it either.

0:31.2

No, I wouldn't think so because you know the story that we're talking about

0:36.8

revolves around a woman who jumped out of not a plane but a helicopter at about 14,000 feet of altitude, more than two miles up in the sky.

0:47.1

And it didn't go the way that everyone might have hoped it would go.

1:00.0

I want to start today by asking you all take a deep breath and close your eyes.

1:07.0

And I want you to imagine yourself sitting on the edge of a helicopter door with your legs dangling out into the breeze. You can see the clouds and ground below you.

1:10.0

Your instructor counts you down.

1:12.0

Three, two, one.

1:14.5

And suddenly you're falling.

1:16.7

So you cross your arms over your chest

1:18.2

as you're instructed and wait to feel the jolt

1:20.7

of the parachute slowing you down. But the jolt never comes. You know you're

1:27.6

about to crash, you're only seconds away from impact when suddenly it hits you, not the ground, but the realization of what it means.

1:37.1

You are about to die.

1:40.7

Now open your eyes and come back into the room.

1:44.0

The full you just experienced is actually what happened to me. That was Emma Carey talking about

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