WATCH: HE FELL 70 FEET INTO A CREVASSE AND CLIMBED OUT—WITH ONE GOOD ARM
WATCH: John All, a scientist and mountaineer, survives a fall into a crevasse and has to make his way out with 15 broken bones.
This is how John All, co-author of Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet, describes the moment after he plunged 70 feet into a crevasse in the Himalayas. Alone, and with a dislocated shoulder, he had to haul himself from ledge to ledge toward the surface, using only one arm.
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