probably the only thing nature abhors
more than a vacuum is a human but people
are resilient and not even nature's
harshest punishments can kill us every
time
here are some amazing tales of people
getting pummeled by the wilderness and
living to tell the tale
we often hear stories of the animals and
Australia that want us dead for ricky
mcgee however no australian critter was
worse than australia itself as detailed
in the national in January 2006 McGee
was driving through Australia's Northern
Territory three men waved him down
claiming they had no gas then they
slipped a drug into McGee's drink robbed
him of virtually everything while he was
passed out and threw him in a shallow
grave to die once McGee awoke he was
alone had no working phone no water no
food no shoes and no hope after two days
he was forced to start drinking his own
urine and didn't eat anything until the
fifth day he eventually found the dam
with water and such culinary delights as
raw frogs lizards and leeches later
after several rounds of heat exhaustion
and dehydration
he found a better dam with more water he
stayed there for almost two months
finally after 71 days McGee was rescued
by nearby station hands who just
happened to be surveying the area by
that time he had dropped from 230 pounds
to a skeletal 99 pounds making his
survival nothing short of a miracle
in 1985 Joe Simpson and his friend Simon
Yates were climbing the Sula grande peak
of the Peruvian Andes they made it to
the top but then trouble started on the
descent Simpson fell and destroyed his
leg just before an unexpected blinding
snowstorm hit if you've never tried to
scale a mountain with a broken leg don't
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Yates attempted to rescue Simpson by
tying him to a rope and gradually
lowering him down the mountain that
worked until as Simpson told people he
was accidentally lowered over a deep
crevasse Yates held onto the rope for
over an hour but he was steadily sliding
toward the cliff and had to cut the rope
to avoid going over this sent Simpson
plummeting into the crevasse
but Yates had unknowingly saved his
friend's life
Simpson crashed through soft snow
breaking his fall enough to keep him
both alive and conscious he then crawled
six miles back to base camp along with
the broken leg
Simpson lost about 42 pounds on the
mountain but he came out living then
went on to write a best-selling book
about his ordeal teenage buddies Tommy
Hendrix and Matthew Smith were hiking in
November 2016 when everything went wrong
at the worst possible time as they told
backpacker they were halfway up the
1,200 foot crossed cular when a
snowstorm arrived a day earlier than
expected the deep snow blinding storm
and incoming darkness made climbing down
impossible they couldn't climb down once
at the peak either since it was
pitch-black and they couldn't see any
paths with 50 mile an hour winds and
temperatures reaching minus 20 degrees
Fahrenheit it was all they could do to
keep frostbite at bay they somehow
survived the nights beginning their
descent the next morning the problem is
they went the wrong way and had no cell
reception
they were also without food and were
getting increasingly soaked
they were succumbing to hypothermia when
a chopper arrived and then flew away the
boys finally gave up and tearfully
accepted death luckily the chopper
returned an hour later and picked them
up maybe the chopper pilot could have
dropped them a note explaining the
chopper needed to refuel in 1981 Yossi
Ginsberg was traveling with three other
people through the Bolivian Amazon after
a couple of weeks of rough conditions
the group split into two tragically one
half was never seen again meanwhile
Ginsburg and his friend Kevin headed off
in a raft it went fine until they lost
control just before a waterfall Ginsberg
was sent flying over the waterfall now
totally on his own Ginsberg told the
Jewish Chronicle that for three weeks he
just did what he could to survive
he laid bug sprayed to create a
makeshift flamethrower and ward off a
Jaguar he swiped eggs from nests and ate
them
but overall he ate very little and was
regularly attacked by all sorts of nasty
creatures
Oh
great it means by the end as he
confessed to the Sydney Morning Herald I
would have eaten human flesh with hunger
at that level it's just energy it's
beyond disgust amazingly his rescue
happened almost completely by accident
Kevin his rafting buddy had survived and
was looking for him but thought he had
failed so he landed his boat to turn
around and just happen to land exactly
where Ginsberg had collapsed that's the
definition of luck though the grit and
toughness needed to last that long is
not being short of Hollywood worthy as
proven by the 2017 film adaptation
starring Daniel Radcliffe August 6 2014
was supposed to be just a regular
California fishing day from Mike bill
Howard at least until he ran out of bait
he decided to head into the woods to
catch grasshoppers but he lost track of
time and when it started getting dark he
realized he had no idea where he was he
was forced to use branches for shelter
and by the next day hunger and
dehydration had taken over I had to do
my own version of the Survivorman the
idiots version with drinking out of
puddles by the fourth day he had reached
his limit he was cold weak exhausted
starving and was running out of ideas he
found his way to a stream and began
carving out a goodbye to his wife on a
piece of wood he also spelled out help
using tree needles one last stab at
making sure his goodbyes wouldn't be
necessary the next morning a search team
finally found him they had been looking
for him all weekend and perhaps the
biggest search-and-rescue mission of the
year the moral of the story gets your
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