danger dolan from people getting lost in
the desert to the sole survivor of a
terrifying plane crash we count 15 times
people evaded deaths in the harshest
circumstances known to man number 15
Chris Stewart this is a story from farm
hints with a 12 year old who was racing
around in his 1000cc Mini when it hit a
barrier at 40 miles per hour and what is
referred to as an internal decapitation
chris's skull was severed from his spine
and he was given a measly 10 percent
chance of survival with doctors claiming
he should have died instantly but
amazingly in 2006 they reattached his
skull using metal plates and bone grafts
and within a few years he was off racing
again number 14
Steven Callahan it was in January 1982
that Steven's set sail and his small
sailboat from the Canary Islands biana
for the Caribbean but not even one week
later his ship sank in a storm and he
was left adrift on an inflatable rubber
raft for 76 in Peyer days he drifted
with nothing but a shot three pounds of
food some gear and water eventually he
washed up on the Bahamas he then wrote
an autobiography of the whole ordeal so
impressive that Angley the director of
Life of Pi R Steven to become a film
consultant on living aboard a life raft
number 13 Bethany Hamilton an early
morning in November 2003 when Bethany
went surfing in Hawaii she was out with
the best friend Alana and their family
when a tiger shark and four meters in
length rose out of the water and tore
Bethany's left arm clean off the
shoulder instead of panicking or crying
this 13 year old girl swam back to shore
with her one good arm even warning other
swimmers nearby to get out of the water
pretty much the toughest girl of all
time number 12 Joe Simpson if you've
ever seen the documentary touching the
void then you'll already know this guy's
story but for those who don't Joe is
being lowered down a crevasse because of
a broken leg when he disappeared from
view so his friend Simon Yates was
forced to cut the rope sending Joe to
what seemed like certain
death instead it turned into a three-day
fight for survival in a frozen pond drew
slowly moving through the snow on a
broken leg half frozen until he's
returned if you haven't seen the
documentary I highly recommend it
touching the void very powerful stuff
number eleven mark and Phil another ice
story this one set in 1982 on the high
slopes of New Zealand's tallest mountain
a Rocky Mount Cook the two men mark
Inglis and Phil duel built an ice cave
to escape the blizzard waiting for it to
pass but unluckily it kept up for
thirteen days and all they had were
meager rations with no prospect of
warmth unfortunately the circulation was
cut off in their legs and they had to be
amputated which is something you should
never have to go through at 23 years of
age crazily enough they still climbed to
this day with Inglis becoming the first
double amputee to conquer Everest losing
fingers and flesh in the process number
10 juliane koepcke 1971 93 passengers
aboard lancer flight 508 when lightning
struck the plane over the Peruvian
rainforest and it came crashing down
Juliane was blown out of the plane early
and landed two miles down the wreckage
in a dense thicket where she only came
out with blindness in one eye a broken
collarbone along with cuts and bruises
she walked down the jungle following the
water downstream until she found a cabin
where she waited for the owner to come
back then she'd go back to civilization
and continued her studies to become a
zoologist number 9 Anatoly Bukowski a
formerly Soviet researcher at the
Institute for high-energy physics
working on the largest particle
accelerator at the time the synchotron
u7t
it was in 1978 that a malfunction forced
Bukowski to you lean over a piece of
equipment and look inside the proton
beam chamber but failed safety
mechanisms did not turn off the beam and
it went straight through his skull at a
speed faster than light he claims he saw
a flash brighter than a thousand suns
with no pain but his face welled up and
skin began to peel off thankfully he
survived without losing any intelligence
but he does get fatigued easily and he
can't hear out of his left ear and he
does have occasional seizures abate
Alcides Moreno a window cleaner who in
2007 fell 47 stories when their cable
snapped alongside his brother Edgar who
tragically fell to his death
Alcides on the other hand was left in a
coma with considerable damage to his
body but soon afterwards he at work and
made a full recovery even walking
despite damage to his spinal cord one of
the doctors quote if you're a believer
in miracles this would be one I've seen
it all or at least I think I have until
something like this happens number seven
Ricky McGee April 2006 a man who showed
up as a skeletal figure near a cattle
station in a remote area of Australia he
claims the last thing he remembered was
getting his car stolen and that he was
drugged by a hitchhiker then he awoke to
find dingo scratching at him he then
moved 71 days of a diet of leeches frog
snakes and insects with water from a
nearby dam and a makeshift shelter by
the time he showed up again he had lost
over half his body weight coming in at
forty eight kilos number six Aron
Ralston May 2003 an 800-pound boulder
falls on Erin's arm and traps it inside
a canyon wall if this story sounds
familiar it's because we saw it in the
film 127 hours in which he spends five
days trapped in a Utah Canyon with
little food or water he went on to write
a book about how he used the boulder to
snap his own arm then cut off the flesh
with a pocketknife until he could wander
off and get rescued by some hikers
passing by number five when Sessler mug
UL a man in 1915 captured during the
mexican revolution sentenced to death by
a firing squad they filled him with
eight bullets and then one more straight
through his head but he survived
feigning death until the shooters left
he's gone on to be interviewed by Ripley
from Ripley's Believe It or Not the
story of the man who survived a barrage
of bullets which sadly left him a little
disfigured number four truman duncan a
railroad switch man who endured a
horrifying ordeal to have his body
sliced clean in half by a train
it was 2006 when Truman fell off a
moving train in Cleburne and sliced him
in two but he managed to stay conscious
calling both 902 inform them what had
happened after a three week coma and 23
surgeries he came out confined to a
wheelchair but very much alive
surgeons claiming it was an absolute
miracle and he should not have survived
number three Tommie Oldman Ashcraft 1983
Tammy and her boyfriend Richard Sharpe
was sailing the South Pacific when a
category 4 hurricane blew up 19 days
into a 30-day crossing the ship capsized
and Tammy still in the lower decks was
knocked unconscious 27 hours later she
awoke to find Richard gone no safety
line or mainmast fighting down the
desire to give up she sailed for 40 days
enroute to what she thought was Hawaii
ending up in hilar Harbor in shock but
thankful to be alive
number 2 Paul Templer 1990s Paul was
working as a river guide with a tribe of
native Zimbabwe when he received a
surprise attack from one of Africa's
most dangerous animals the bull hippo
while trying to save a colleague the
hippo swallowed Paul's head and then he
got mauled with rips in his foot a
severed arm broken ribs and holes his
chest cavity he then endured a
seven-hour operation for his recovery
and went on leading safari trips and
public speaking for charities number one
more Prosperi
the 1994 marathon of the sands in
morocco mauro was performing the six-day
run when a sandstorm caused him to lose
his way he ended up forgetting which way
he was supposed to run and so he ended
up far far away from a track within 36
hours he'd run out of food and water so
he resorted to drinking urine and eating
bats and snakes he tried to commit
suicide by slitting his own wrists but
dehydration caused his blood to thicken
clotting each wound nine days later he
was found by some nomads and taken to
the algerian hospital that is it for
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