How to Survive a 1,000-Foot Fall

British mounter Adam Potter fell 1,000 feet down the side of a tidy sum in the Scottish Highlands . A helicopter crew found him half an time of day later , stand on his feet read a map . How did he live ?

ceramist was climbing a heap call Sgurr Choinnich Mor with his girlfriend , two friends , and his dog when he skid on the snow and rolled down a “ rough scree slope , ” over three hundred - foot - high cliffs , and in the end onto a bowlder , which he thinks may have ping him out .

So what do you do if you return off a freaking mountain ? One thing you’re able to do is never even start mount a good deal , in the first space . But , if you make that essential misapprehension , you’re able to do what Potter did :

Bark Watch

Make certain you mount a plenty with lots of deep , heavy snow to help moderate your spill

detain alive while you fall , or at least , for the first duet cliffs , so you could slack your descent

Just have the best goddamn fortune in the world

Last Of Us 7 Recap 2

Royal Navy saving helicopters recover Potter on his bowlder , looking at his map , which is seriously high-risk - rear end . Actually , at first , they assumed that since he was active he was a dissimilar hiker entirely , but were able-bodied to piece it together thanks to the trail of mountaineering crap he ’d left behind :

“ It seemed impossible . So we construct our path back up the sight and , trusted enough , there were bits of his kit in a vertical line all the fashion up where he had obviously miss them during the fall . It was quite unbelievable . He must have literally glanced off the outcrops as he fell , almost flying , ” [ said Lieutenant Tim Barker ]

Potter , who ostensibly did n’t learn his lesson , is head off to go up Everest in two months .

Greenworks