Survival in extreme situations requires a person's endurance and unshakable faith that there are no hopeless situations. I present five stories whose heroes managed to survive in the most difficult conditions.
Long flight and 4 days of survival
The record height, after falling from which a person managed to survive, is 10,160 meters. This record is listed in the Guinness Book and belongs to Vesna Vulovich, the only survivor of the plane crash on January 26, 1972. She not only recovered, but also wanted to return to work again - she did not have a fear of flying, because she did not remember the very moment of the disaster.
On August 24, 1981, 20-year-old Larisa Savitskaya and her husband flew from honeymoon trip by plane An-24 from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk. In the sky at an altitude of 5220 meters, their plane collided with a Tu-16. Larisa Savitskaya was the only one of 38 people who survived.
On the wreckage of an airplane measuring three by four meters, she flew to free fall for 8 minutes. She managed to get to the chair and squeeze into it. Later, the woman claimed that at that moment she remembered an episode from the Italian film “Miracles Still Happen”, where the heroine survives in similar conditions. Rescue work was not very active. Graves have even been dug for all the victims of the plane crash.
Larisa Savitskaya was eventually found last. She lived for three days among the wreckage of the aircraft and the bodies of dead passengers. Despite numerous injuries - a concussion, spinal injuries, broken ribs and a broken arm, Savitskaya not only survived, but was able to build herself something like a hut from the wreckage of the fuselage. When the search plane flew over the crash site, Larisa even waved to the rescuers, but they mistook her for a geologist from an expedition stationed nearby.
Larisa Savitskaya was twice included in the Guinness Book of Records: as a person who survived a fall from a great height, and as a person who received the minimum amount of compensation for physical damage in a plane crash - 75 rubles (in 1981 money).
On a small raft
On November 23, 1942, a German submarine torpedoed the English ship Ben Lomond. All members of his crew were killed. Almost all. Sailor Lin Peng managed to survive. He was lucky - during the search on the surface of the water, he found a life raft, which had a supply of food. Lin Peng, of course, understood that food and water would run out sooner or later, so from the first day of his Robinsonade, he began to prepare equipment for collecting rainwater and catching fish. He stretched an awning over the raft, made a fishing line from the threads of the rope found on the raft; from a nail and wires from a flashlight - hooks; from metal from a tin can - a knife with which he butchered the caught fish.Interesting fact: Lin Peng could not swim, so he was tied to a raft all the time. Lin Peng caught very little fish, but he took care of its safety - he dried it on ropes stretched over the deck of his "ship". For a hundred days, his diet was one fish and water. Sometimes algae came overboard, the consumption of which prevented Lin Peng from getting scurvy.
The bitter irony of Lin Peng's record-breaking voyage is that he could have been saved multiple times. Once he was not taken on board a cargo ship just because he was Chinese. Then the US Navy noticed him and even threw him a rescue buoy, but the storm that broke out prevented the Americans from completing the rescue mission. In addition, Lin Peng saw several German submarines, but for obvious reasons did not turn to them for help.
Only in April 1943, he noticed that the color of the water had changed, and birds began to appear in the sky every now and then. He realized that he was in the coastal zone, which means that his chances of success increased many times over.
On April 5, he was found by Brazilian fishermen, who immediately took him to the hospital. Surprisingly, Lin Peng was able to walk on his own after his journey. He lost only 9 kilograms during the forced Robinsonade. The recommendations of the Chinese were included in the instructions for survival for the British fleet. Lin Peng's story was partly used in the making of the film Life of Pi.
Well-read cabin boy
Robinsonade is the survival of a man alone for a long time in natural environment. The record holder in this "discipline" was Jeremy Beebs, who lived on the island for 74 years. In 1911, during a hurricane in the southern part Pacific Ocean The English schooner Beautiful Bliss sank. Only 14-year-old cabin boy Jeremy Beebs managed to get to the shore and escape on a desert island. The boy was helped by his erudition and love of reading - he knew by heart the novel by Daniel Defoe.Following the example of the hero of his favorite book, Beebs began to keep a wooden calendar, built a hut, learned to hunt, ate fruit and drank coconut milk. While the Beebs lived on the island, the world experienced two world wars, the atomic bomb was created and Personal Computer. He didn't know anything about it. We found Biebs by accident. In 1985, the crew of a German ship unexpectedly discovered an 88-year-old record holder among Robinsons and brought him home.
Father's daughter
On December 24, 1971, a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft of the Peruvian airline LANSA fell into a vast thunderstorm area, was struck by lightning, entered the turbulence zone and began to break up in the air at an altitude of 3.2 kilometers. He fell into the jungle, 500 kilometers from Lima. The only survivor was 17-year-old schoolgirl Juliana Margaret Koepke.At the time of the fall, the girl was fastened to a chair. Her collarbone was broken, her right hand was injured, she was blind in one eye. Juliana's survival was helped by the fact that her father was a well-known zoologist, who from childhood instilled in his daughter the skills to survive in extreme conditions. Immediately after the crash, leaving attempts to find her mother among the bodies of the dead, the girl examined the luggage for food, but found only a few sweets - also the result.
Then Juliana found a stream near the place of the fall and went down its stream. Only nine days later she was lucky enough to go to the boat on the river bank. With gasoline from a canister, the girl treated the wound on her right shoulder, in which the larvae had already bred. The owners of the boat, who turned out to be local lumberjacks, did not appear until the next day. Juliana was fed, treated for wounds and taken to the hospital of the nearest village.
Alone with the snow
On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying the players of the Uruguayan rugby team Old Christians from Montevideo, their relatives and sponsors, crashed in the Andes highlands. 27 people survived after the fall. Later, due to the avalanche, another 8 people died, three more died of wounds. The fact that there was nowhere to wait for help, the Uruguayans realized 11 days after the accident, when they said on the radio that their search was stopped and they were declared dead.The dire situation in which the passengers found themselves was aggravated by the fact that supplies ran out very quickly. Miraculously, the survivors of the crash made a difficult decision - to eat the meat of the dead. The victims were rescued only 72 days after the disaster, and only due to the fact that the group sent three people on the road who needed to cross the Andes and report what had happened. The most difficult transition was overcome by two. For 11 days, without equipment and warm clothes, they walked 55 kilometers along the snowy Andes and went to a mountain river, where they met a Chilean shepherd, who informed the authorities about the surviving passengers. Imagine that the clock is three o'clock in the afternoon, and you have not had dinner yet. All your thoughts begin to revolve around food.
Most people who skip meals or leave their jackets at home in cold weather find their day ruined. The slightest feeling of hunger or cold makes you feel uncomfortable. But what would you do if you were in a difficult situation on the verge of survival?
This article presents ten incredible stories about people who have had much worse than you with your hopelessly ruined day.
The man who drifted on a raft on the high seas for 76 days
In 1982, Stephen Callahan, an American writer, naval architect, inventor and sailor, collected all the available materials from wood and built a boat on which he sailed from the Canary Islands. He took with him a little more than a kilogram of food, about four liters of water, a solar watermaker and a homemade spear.
Six days after the start of the trip, Stephen Callahan's boat sank, as a result of which he was forced to drift in the open sea on a wooden raft measuring 1.5 x 1.5 meters for 76 days until he was rescued. During this time, Callahan's raft covered a distance of almost 3,000 kilometers. The man managed to survive in spite of everything, including the attacks of bloodthirsty sharks.
The teenage girl who survived the crash of a plane that fell from a height of three thousand meters into the depths of the rainforest
On Christmas Eve 1971, seventeen-year-old Juliana Margaret Koepcke flew LANSA Flight 508 with her mother to Pucallpa, where her father worked. None of them suspected that due to an absurd accident (a lightning strike), the plane would crash, and Juliana would become the only person who would be able to survive in a terrible plane crash. A girl with cut wounds and a broken collarbone wandered the jungle for nine days in search of help. She survived in the wild thanks to her parents, who from childhood taught her how to cope with extreme situations.
A teenager who lived in the wild for two months
In November 2013, eighteen-year-old teenager Matthew Allen, who has a mental disorder, left home without things and mobile phone and did not return. Two months later, he was found covered in leeches in the Australian bush. During this time, he partially lost his sight, lost about 30 kilograms and developed gangrene of the lower extremities.
For two months, Matthew Allen saved himself by drinking water from an almost dry stream.
Two men who survived a car crash and spent ten days looking for help
Uruguayan rugby players Nando Parrado and Roberto Caneza were among those lucky enough to survive a passenger plane crash in the Andes in 1972. Then, as a result of the crash, 29 people died.
Nando Parrado, Roberto Canesa and other surviving passengers (in total, sixteen people managed to escape) wandered the mountains for ten days in search of help. To survive in frosty conditions, they had to resort to cannibalism: for a week they ate the flesh of dead people.
In 1974, British writer Piers Paul Reed wrote Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors about the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, which later became a bestseller. Later, the story described in the book was the basis for the plot of the film "Alive", which was written by Ethan Hawke.
In turn, in 2006, Nando Parrado published the book Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days in the Mountains and My Long Way Home.
Man who had to amputate his arm to survive being trapped
The story of American mountaineer Aron Ralston was the basis of the plot of the film "127 Hours" with James Franco in the title role.
In 2003, Aron Ralston put on his boots, packed a hydration backpack, climbing gear, a folding hiking tool, loaded his mountain bike into the back of his truck, and set out on a five-hour drive across Utah to do the solo hike he never knew about. didn't say.
During the passage of the Blue John Canyon in national park Canyonlands Ralston accidentally found himself in a dangerous trap: a huge boulder weighing 360 kilograms fell on his right hand. The climber spent 5 days with his right hand clamped under a boulder. When food and water supplies were exhausted, and Ralston was faced with a matter of life and death, he plucked up courage and did the unthinkable - he amputated his right hand with a blunt folding knife.
Despite severe pain shock and a bleeding wound, Ralston managed to get out of the crevice. He walked for several hours under the scorching sun, until he finally came across a group of tourists who provided him with the first medical care and called for a rescue helicopter.
The climber who woke up from a deep hypothermic coma that lasted eighteen hours
In 1996, Dr. Seaborn Beck, along with nine climbers, decided to fulfill his cherished dream and conquer the mighty peak of Everest. Unfortunately, this attempt turned into a nightmare that changed Dr. Seaborn's life forever.
During the ascent of Everest, he fell into a deep hypothermic coma, in which he remained for eighteen hours. Dr. Seaborn nearly died. He miraculously managed to survive, but not without terrible consequences. Subsequently, doctors amputated his upper and lower limbs, and also removed frostbite skin from his face. However, Dr. Seaborn is not discouraged, he enjoys his life like never before.
In his book Left for Dead, Dr. Seaborn writes: “At the last moment, some unknown inner force saved me from death. I, barely dragging my feet (literally like a walking dead), got to the camp where my rebirth took place ... ". His book formed the basis of the plot of two films - "Left for Dead" and "Everest".
Two men who got lost in the Amazon rainforest and lived there for three weeks
In 1981, the young and naive Yossi Ginsberg, along with several of his friends and like-minded people, went to explore the Amazon rainforest and got lost in its wilds. At this point, the travelers realized that they had very little food left.
After a quarrel arose between the friends, which ended with the fact that two of them left, separated from the group, and no one else saw them. Ginsberg was left alone with Kevin. During the three weeks that they spent in the jungle, they had a hard time. Ginsberg's raft crashed into the rocks; he ended up cut off from Kevin and so they were forced to split up. Yossi spent 19 days alone in the jungle, after Kevin found him and rescued him.
A teenage girl who was seriously injured in a horrific car accident, but was able to walk again despite everything.
At the age of seventeen, Katrina Burgess signed a contract with a modeling agency. Just a few months before, she had had to endure a terrible accident. She ended up in the hospital with a broken neck, pelvis, left leg, spine, and punctured lungs. The doctors said she would never walk again. Katrina underwent countless operations and, despite all the disappointing forecasts of doctors, she got on her feet.
The man who fell from the 47th floor and survived
In 2007, two brothers Alkid and Edgar Moreno washed windows in a New York building. Unfortunately, they forgot to put on their seat belts that day, which caused a terrible tragedy. The brothers fell off the height of the 47th floor and flew down.
From his injuries, Edgar died on the spot, and Alkid miraculously managed to survive. He was admitted to the hospital with multiple broken ribs, right hand, both legs, as well as a serious spinal injury. Alcides fell into a coma, but eventually came to his senses and was able to walk again.
According to Dr. Philip Barry, who treated Alcides Moreno, it was truly a miracle.
The Man Who Survived a Hippo Attack
After serving in the British Army, Paul Templer returned to his homeland, Zimbabwe, where he got a job as a river guide. One of the trips along the river almost ended in tragedy for Paul.
In 1995, a man witnessed how a huge hippo attacked his colleague. He did not stand aside and tried to help the poor fellow.
When Paul got close to the hippopotamus, it opened its large mouth and swallowed it whole. The man somehow managed to escape from the mouth of the animal, but he received a serious injury to his hand, because of which it had to be amputated. Despite this, Paul continues to work as a river guide until now.
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Harrison Okene
On May 28, 2013, divers were looking for the cause of the Jacson-4 disaster that sank off the coast of Nigeria. What they didn't expect to see was a survivor. Harrison Okene was the cook on the ship. He entered the latrine just as the ship capsized. The unfortunate cook was trapped - fortunately, an air bubble formed here. The poor cook sat under water for three days and had already lost hope, when he suddenly heard the sound of hammers. The divers pulled out the chef, stunned with happiness: Okene swore never to step on the deck again in his life. Still would.
The Robertson family
For 38 days, the Robertson family wandered the sea. The father of the family, Dougal Roberson, decided to take the family for a ride: driven by a thirst for adventure, this British farmer brought the schooner Lucette and set off in an unknown direction. For 17 months, a cheerful family plowed the world's oceans, not knowing any problems. But on June 15, 1972, these guys met a flock of killer whales. The whales attacked the boat and split it. The whole family moved into a single boat. They survived on rainwater and turtle meat, which abounded off the Galapagos Islands. And everything would be fine - yes, the boat leaked. Japanese fishermen removed the Robertsons from an almost drowned boat, having dispersed a whole flock of hungry sharks before that.
Expedition Endurance
Ernest Shackleton was not afraid to go to conquer the South Pole. His group of 28 people had to pass the entire continent and board the ship waiting for them on the other side. The problems began long before the start of the planned trip. Shackleton's Endurance got stuck in the ice and people had to use lifeboats. Fortunately, Shackleton turned out to be not only an experienced, but also a lucky commander: all the participants in the risky undertaking managed to escape.
Juliana Margaret Koepke
This story is about a woman whose willpower any guy can envy. Juliana was flying LANSA Flight 508, which was struck by lightning and disintegrated in the air. Throwing aside the panic, the girl fastened herself tighter to the chair and began to pray. Having flown about three kilometers, the girl collapsed on the crowns of trees - and remained alive. But there was one more problem: the wild jungle, where there was not a single person. Juliana coped with this, having managed to hold out until the rescue expedition arrived.
Apollo 13
The legendary Apollo 13 mission could have ended in a terrible tragedy. Faulty electrical wiring sparked right next to oxygen bottle. The entire crew had to move to the lunar module and get out into the main room only to correct the flight - otherwise they would simply have been blown into space. Maximum concentration helped Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred House return to Earth unharmed.
Ralston
Man rose to the top of the evolutionary pyramid not only because he managed to get on his feet and learn how to harvest. The main thing that distinguishes him from other creatures is the awareness of impending death. Thanks to this, people can take care of security in advance and take right decisions in the most extreme situations.
Survival stories are terrifying and impressive at the same time. The awareness of death helped to make decisions that are contrary to common sense. But it was thanks to them that the heroes of our 7 stories were able to tell about their salvation.
Survive in the Sahara without water
Extreme marathons are a way to test your endurance in conditions that are difficult for a normal existence, even for those who have all the adaptations and an adequate supply of water and food. Mauro Prosperi participated in the Sand Marathon for the first time. The distance of 250 km ran through the desert.
The first stage of the foot race went according to plan. But one day there was a sandstorm. Mauro waited for her in the tent. When I got out of it, I saw that the landscape had changed beyond recognition. All participants had a compass and a map, but navigation without a starting point was unsuccessful. The athlete just started walking through the desert. The supply of water ran out and he peed into the bottle to save at least some grams of the liquid.
On the 3rd day he came to the tomb. It was sun protection sandy wind. Hiding in the room the bats. Mauro drank the blood of 20 individuals - this helped replenish the supply of fluid in the body. 2 planes did not notice the smoke of his flares, at that moment despair washed over him. The man cut his veins and fell asleep ... But in the morning he woke up alive and saw that the blood had simply coagulated. It was a "second wind" - he realized that death did not want to take him away.
Mauro Prosperi moved through the desert behind the clouds, which were only in the morning. During the day he rested, fed on the blood of lizards, chewed cacti. Oriented by animal excrement. On the 9th day I went to the oasis. There he was found by a tribe of Berbers. For 9 days of living in the desert, he lost 16 kg of weight, walked 300 km. The marathon runner managed to survive not only because of his excellent physical fitness:
- clarity of thought and calmness helped to find sources of liquid;
- knowledge of the characteristics of the desert - to avoid overheating and burns;
- the athlete somehow activated forgotten and deeply hidden instincts in himself.
In glaciers on one leg
Joe Simpson was a member of the climbing team, which consisted of three people. He and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, set off together to the summit of Siula Grande, leaving Richard Hawkins at the camp.
There were only 15-20 meters to the top when Joe fell off a cliff and hit his foot on a rock ledge. The bone of the lower leg went through the knee joint and split lower part tibia. A healthy partner began to organize the descent. Weather and loose snow complicated this process.
A little less than 1 km of height remained before the camp, when they realized that there was a steep cliff below. Simpson hung over a cliff, under which there was a huge crack. Simon was in an equally dangerous position: loose snow dispersed under him and the risk of falling off along with a wounded partner increased. Simon waited an hour in the hope that Simpson would get to a safe position. But the rope remained taut. Simon cut it...
The loose snow cushioned Joe's fall. He had a choice - to wait for death or to take the insignificant chance that the situation left him. He started down the crack. 40 meters were covered in 5 hours, but there were 9 km ahead. With a painful shock, in an altered state of consciousness, Joe moved, surrendering to the will of the delusional voice that was heard in his head. The climber literally crawled to the camp, from which Simon and Richard were going to leave in a few hours.
Joe Simpson's survival was successful due to the following factors:
- eating snow helped to maintain strength;
- the climber chose, albeit insignificant, but a chance for life;
- in a state of altered consciousness, basic instincts aimed at survival were activated.
Prisoner of the ocean
Many have heard of the movie "Life of Pi", but few know that most of survival devices were invented in a real situation. Stephen Callahan is an experienced yachtsman, inventor of navigational instruments, yacht designer, who was recognized by the world through his 76-day drifting in a boat on the Atlantic Ocean.
Callahan went into a solo race in a sloop of his own design. One night there was a storm and his ship collided with a whale in the sea. The traveler managed to get into the lifeboat. After the storm subsided, he carried off his sinking sloop his minimum for survival - a watermaker, a supply of food, a flashlight and a guide to surviving in large waters.
During the drifting, 9 ships passed him, he was poisoned by the paint that peeled off the distiller, received sunburn of the 3rd degree, sharks attacked his boat and struggle with himself - madness and panic seized him more and more often.
Callahan's boat was thrown onto the island and a day later he was found by local fishermen. Stephen Callahan is not the only person who managed to survive in the captivity of the World Ocean, but his rescue is a real feat. Helped him:
- professional experience;
- ability to endure social isolation;
- cold-blooded prioritization (for example, he endured the pain of ulcers, but drinking water kept for internal use.
- scurvy was saved by drinking the blood of fish and birds.
Reasons why people manage to survive in unrealistic conditions
- The choice of life. From that moment on, the subconscious starts a certain program to activate the ancient instincts. Disgust and fear go away, and in their place comes the ability to see and use all the chances that every moment of life presents.
- Body endurance. In the desert, in the mountains, on the water - everywhere these people fought with nature, having previously increased their physiological endurance threshold.
- Adaptability. Each of them accepted the conditions of the environment and began their marathon of survival taking them into account.
Thanks to these stories, we get not only the knowledge of how to be in an extreme situation, but also the fact that the price of life is so high that it is better to avoid such tests.
People periodically fall into unusual situations. Sometimes this happens voluntarily when they go to the mountains, forests, remote, untraveled routes. Sometimes it happens unexpectedly - as a result of disasters or crimes.
But in any such situation, a person is faced with a choice - to quietly give up and die, or fear for his life and become the author of another story. survival in extreme situations.
1 Survive in the ice
Sir Ernest Shackleton led his group to conquer Antarctica in 1914. They began their journey on the Endurance. But soon the ship was covered with drifting ice, and the crew was forced to abandon it. After the death of the ship, there was no longer any talk of going to Antarctica, it was necessary to save the team,< выживать любой ценой.
Shackleton's group sailed in the ice for 2 years until they managed to get to Elephant Island in lifeboats. The team spent six months there, the main food at that time was whale oil and seal meat.
During this time, Shackleton continued his research with a group of five. They bypassed the island from the north, and then crossed the ocean to the island of South Georgia, passing about 1300 kilometers. For 36 hours, Shackleton and two other crew members explored the island, mapping it for the first time. Only three months later, the researchers reached the main group on Elephant Island.
But despite the most difficult conditions, hunger, cold, they survived. They won respect and pride in their journey.
2. Survive in the Amazonian jungle
In 1981, Yossi Ginsberg, along with three other Israelis, decided to go to the Amazon jungle in Bolivia. Very quickly, the companions got lost, in addition, they realized that their equipment was insufficient for such a journey. At this point, they decided to split into 2 teams and continue on their way separately. One pair was never found.
The second couple, which included Ginsberg and his friend Kevin, started down the river on a raft. But unsuccessfully - the raft crashed on the rocks and the partners lost each other. For 19 days, Ginsberg was left alone in the jungle. Kevin was luckier - he was picked up locals, and they also organized the search for Yossi. So friends managed to get out of the selva.
3. In the ice cave
Phil Dule and Mark Inglis in 1982, they began climbing Mount Cook (or Aoraki), the highest peak in New Zealand. During the ascent to the 3764 meter mountain, they were caught by a snow storm. The climbers quickly built an ice shelter from the snow and waited for the end of the storm.
But the rescuers managed to get to Phil and Mark only after 13 days. All this time the climbers spent in a small cave, eating croaker fish. The tightness of the cave and the cold, unfortunately, did not affect the guys in the best way. These factors led to a violation of blood circulation in the limbs, and the legs had to be amputated.
But the guys did not give up rock climbing. They nevertheless conquered Aoraki, and Inglis climbed Everest in 2006, becoming its first legless conqueror and having lost his fingertips from frostbite.
4. Hand or life
Sometimes you have to do surgery on yourself in order to survive. That's what happened to Aron Ralston. In 2003, while climbing a remote canyon in Utah, his hand was crushed by a 360 kg boulder. He spent 5 days trying to free himself, but when the water and food ran out, a drastic decision had to be made.
He broke the bones with a boulder, and then sawed through the muscles and tendons with a blunt penknife. After that, Ralston rappelled down a 65-foot cliff and was only found near the car by other hikers.
5. Mountain hike
Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes has a height of 6260 meters. After climbing to this peak, the adventure began Joe Simpson and Simon Yates.
Simpson was the first to go down, he slipped and broke his leg. While Yates was walking towards him, Simpson fell off the cliff, but kept on the edge. Sims spent a whole hour on a rope, Yates did not see or hear him. Then Simpson flew down. There is different versions why this happened - perhaps the rope was cut by Yates, which saved both of their lives.
But as a result, Yates went down, and Simpson fell into a crevice. He managed to get out of there, despite the existing injuries. Then he got to the camp for three days, without food, water, painkillers.
He crawled to the base at night, where he met the already recovered Yates, who planned next stage route.
6. Lost in the Pacific
Tami Oldham Ashcraft with my boyfriend Richard Sharp planned to make a pleasant walk along the route Tahiti - San Diego within a month. They needed to move the 44-foot yacht "Khazan" to the dock. But on the 19th day they were hit by a magnitude 4 storm. It was the echo of Hurricane Raymond, which raised a wave of 50 feet. As a result, the yacht capsized. Ashcraft, who was below deck during the storm, lost consciousness.
She woke up three days later. By this point, Sharpe was dead, his lifebelt torn, mainmast broken. Fortunately, the sailboat returned to its normal position. Tami built a temporary mast, plotted a route to Hawaii, and sailed fifteen hundred miles with a minimum of food and water. After 40 days, she entered the harbor of Hilo, and then reached the port of destination.
7. Off the beaten path in Australia
Spring 2006 Mark Clifford found a six-foot thin man on his land. Although it would be more correct to call what appeared on a remote farm in northern Australia a real skeleton. It turned out to be Ricky Migi, who wandered in the wilderness for 10 weeks.
How he got lost is not exactly clear. According to Migi, his car broke down, there was another version that he was thrown out by a hitchhiker. In addition, Ricky himself used drugs according to the police. But the fact is that he got lost, spent some time somewhere in the wilderness by a dam on a diet of leeches, frogs and grasshoppers. And most importantly, he survived!
8. Crashed in the Andes
The history of the Uruguayan rugby team is known to many - it is described in books, feature films and documentaries. In 1972, a plane with a crew of 45 people crashed in the mountains. In the first hours, 12 died, the next day another 5 died from injuries. Within a week, four more died, and eight were covered by an avalanche.
The last 16 people were fighting hunger and cold. They even had to eat the corpses of their comrades who had previously died from wounds in order to survive. Hope for the arrival of rescuers was rapidly fading, and then Roberto Canessa and Nando Parrado left the mountain. They still managed to get to the people and bring help to their comrades.
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