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He Hung His Thermals in a Tree - How He Stayed Alive

He Hung His Thermals in a Tree - How He Stayed Alive

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He Hung His Thermals in a Tree - How He Stayed Alive

Cold fear tightens the chest: a man’s frozen thermals hung eight feet high in a spruce, arms outstretched, no footprints beneath and no fire for forty-four hours - how did he survive in minus seventeen Celsius and wet clothes? What one decision in the first twenty minutes kept him alive?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a December morning when a twenty-two-year-old skier signed a trail register and set off alone, through the moment he fell through river ice at Harrow Bend, to the improvised choices that let him live - could the same actions save you in similar conditions?

Person: Robert Turner
Date: December 9, 2019
Location: Harrow Bend, Blackthorn River, Aldermoor service road
Temperature: minus seventeen degrees Celsius
Distance planned: 26 kilometers

- Thermals (charcoal wool-synthetic top and bottom) were hung from a black spruce at roughly eight feet off the ground with arms extended.
- No footprints were found in the snow beneath the suspended clothing at the discovery site.
- Robert left the trailhead and signed the voluntary register at 08:05 noting the full Blackthorn Loop, clockwise, 26 km.
- GPS watch recorded Robert at Harrow Bend at approximately 10:47 and then stationary near the far tree line after going through the ice.
- He survived roughly forty-four hours after falling through thin ice created by a thermal spring without a fire or an emergency kit.

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