10 Incredible Stories of Survival in Extreme Situations!

10 Incredible Stories of Survival in Extreme Situations!

1. Self-amputation with a pocket knife – Aron Ralston

Born in 1975, Aron Ralston Lee is an American mountaineer, who got his arm jammed into a boulder in April 2003 during a hike in the Blue John Canyon in Utah. The next whole day the young man was busy trying to free his hand from the rock.

But ultimately everything remained in vain with a homemade pulley. After five days Ralston was hypothermic, exhausted and almost dried up. In his distress he broke his radius and ulna of the affected arm himself as the body part was turned in a certain direction for a very long time. He then took out his pocket knife and ripped off the blood vessels and soft tissues.

2. Nine days through the desert – Mauro Prosperi

1994, during the legendary Marathon des Sables i.e (The toughest footrace on earth( , the Italian-born athlete Mauro Prosperi got strayed. The course led to a 230 km long route through the Moroccan Sahara . During a prior storm Prosperi was running in the wrong direction.

Prosperi said he had to occasionally drank his own urine, so as to avoid being drying out completely . The sportsman became so desperate that he wanted to kill himself in order to find a less cruel death than dying of thirst. But when he cut his wrists, the cuts were healed up by the thick blood by itself.

3. The only survivor of a plane crash – Vesna Vulovic

Vesna Vulovic worked as a stewardess in a Yugoslavian aircraft when on January 26, 1972  it crashed over the former Czechoslovakia .According to the Secret Service, the reason for the crash was a bomb explosion. Vulovic survived the disaster as only one of a total of 29 people.

Vulovic was enclosed in a piece of wreckage, as it bounced with her in a wooded area on the ground. She was severely injured after their landing and was four and a half hours clinically dead before she could be revived. Then she went into a coma for four weeks. She had broken her arms, legs, spine and the skull.

4. The mining accident in San José – Stucked in a mine

The incident occurred in the gold and copper mine in San José,Chile on the fifth August 2010, due to a mountain shock. The mine suffered  a serious collapse. 33 miners were trapped at a depth of about 700 meters.

It took more than two weeks for the rescue team to untap the holes to supply food, The miners in the mountain  were supplied oxygen through cracks and old workings.

5. 118 days on the ocean – Maurice and Maralyn Bailey

On the fourth in March 1973, a British couple had to face this incident. The couple was heading to New zealand.Located in the Pacific, their yacht (31ft long) was rammed by a whale, which tore a 30 x 45 centimeter hole in the ship. It took less than an hour and the sailing ship went down.

6. Fall from the 39th floor – Thomas Magill

Thomas Magill, a window cleaner who had incredible luck in case of a fall from the 39th floor of a New York skyscraper. The then 22-year-old man fell while working about 120 meters in depth.

Thomas Magill owes his life to a parked car, as he bounced against its back window. The young man flew with his feet directly to the vehicle first. Magill only suffered  multiple bone fractures and was hospitalized. Other than that, the young man remained unscathed.

7. The two-time atomic bomb victim – Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Born in Japan Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived in 1916 as one of 165 people from the two atomic bombings of Americans during the Second World War. He was officially recognized as one of the nine known survivors.

8. Ants as lifesaver – Joan Murray

When the American parachutist Joan Murray jumped off the plane with an altitude of 4,350 meters, she had no idea that this adventure would end in the airy realms of North Carolina with a disaster. The parachute did not open and the reserve parachute got tangled up as well.

9. The crash of Uruguayan Air Force – Survived by raw human flesh

On October 13, 1972, a plane of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed during a flight from Mendoza, Argentina to Santiago, Chile at an altitude of about 4,000 meters on a mountain slope. The passengers were the members of a rugby team who were flying for a game to Chile.

10. A horse is the only survivor – Comanche

Comanche was believed to have been captured as a wild horse and was trained in St. Louis. Comanche was a mixed breed horse who survived General George Armstrong Custer’s detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry. The incident took place at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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