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Real Survival Stories

Tomb of Ice: 40-Foot Plunge Into a Crevasse

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

After a relaxing family holiday in a Montana national park, Ted Porter stays on for a few days. He wants to explore, to tackle some longer hikes and bigger climbs. But as he descends a remote glacier all alone, a whirlwind of an accident leaves him trapped inside a deep fissure in the ice. With no hope of rescue, and with a broken back, he must somehow find a way out. Ted is about to discover an inner strength he never knew he had… A Noiser production, written by Chris McDonald. 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

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It's mid-afternoon in the state of Montana on September 2nd, 2013. A blanket of clouds drifts over Glacier National Park.

0:35.0

It casts a dark shadow across the jagged snowy mountains,

0:39.0

for sparkling alpine streams and deep tree-lined valleys.

0:45.3

This ancient landscape was carved out of the ice.

0:48.8

Glaciers once covered every mountain.

0:51.4

Today, only a few dozen remain. Those that journey here are still

0:57.0

awestruck by their eternal beauty. But alongside that beauty lies danger.

1:04.0

These great sweeping ice sheets can be treacherous underfoot.

1:09.0

Yawning chasms concealed by snow, run tens, if not hundreds of feet deep.

1:17.2

It's a danger that 36-year-old Ted Porter is now all too aware of.

1:27.0

He shudders and blinks up into the darkness, back towards the light,

1:29.0

and the slender opening of the crevasse, which he has just fallen into.

1:34.0

And I was at the bottom of the crevas,

1:36.0

and I was trying to figure out where I was, how deep I was,

1:41.0

and fathoming the fact that this actually took place and this is really happening to me right now and I'm by myself.

1:50.0

Then the pain hits him.

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