Hiking Accident Survivor interview-Kevin

all right Kevin Kevin uh where you from where'd you grow up um originally I'm from L graville New York um it's about an hour and a half two hours north of New York City in the Hudson Valley um currently I live out of my van I'm sort of more of a nomad nowadays and uh it's sort of what led me to my accident your story to begin with yeah this so so you're a hiker yeah yeah I'm a big hiker I like rock climbing and just screwing around in the mountains and stuff like that so tell me what happened so uh it just happened recently right yeah yeah this happened probably like two months ago about about 10 weeks ago so um I guess I'll just take it from the start uh it was a beautiful day and me and my buddy are big into rock hounding going out and looking for cool rocks wherever it may be you know but a lot of the times it's in these like really really remote locations and so uh my buddy just got a new job and we made this plan to go up there and dig for rocks and everything like that and at the time he was extremely sick he had the flu and also he had bad back um so you know we were stoked and not a cloud in the sky it was like the most beautiful day possible um so we slogged up there takes like about 2 and a half hours out in the Ino mountains in eastern California almost Nevada actually um like I said super remote area um and we get up there and we start digging and we're having a great time uh didn't really think much of it you know uh until it was my turn to start digging under this massive Boulder that was perched up on a 45 degree angle Hill and so I'm used to digging under rocks all the time uh and not them not really moving you know they've been there for thousands of years but this time it was different um so basically we were digging under this Boulder with this little scraper tool and uh collecting some cool rocks cool specimens and I went to go step back for a second just to relax cuz it takes a lot out of you uh scratching through all that rock and mud and whatnot and so I went to step back for a second and before I even knew it I heard my buddy yell gbo look out and I look up and before I could even get out of the way this massive 6 to 10,000lb Boulder hits my entire body and takes me off of my feet and uh it actually hit me so hard that it knocked me on my back and so at that moment I was sitting with a giant boulder basically in my lap and teetering on my chest threatening to come down to my head and so you know at first this all just felt like a dream to me it didn't even feel like real life and usually that's when you wake up from a dream but I didn't wake up how big was it um it's about the size of a washing machine and a half six to 10,000 lb about um so this thing was on top of me and I just remember uh once I came to the realization that this was real life I I kind of I started thinking about life immediately I yelled to him you got to get this thing off of me it's killing me it's killing me and I could feel the mass of the boulder couldn't move it at all like I said it was teetering on my chest so I looked up at my buddy's face and he had the most deranged look on his face I've ever seen and we've done a lot of things together like sketchy stuff in the mountains but I'd never seen him make this facial expression and so he starts saying like no no like this isn't happening we got to get you out of there as he's panicking and trying to push the thing and so he finds a second to grab this pickaxe that we were digging with and to come on my side of the boulder cuz I was facing uphill on a 45 angle and he stuffed that pickaxe right under the boulder right next to me so that it wouldn't keep coming down in my chest and humans aren't used to being trapped under things like that so naturally I was trying to squir him every witch way that I could to try to get myself out of that situation and I noticed that even though both of my legs were completely crushed I had my phone in my pocket and I wasn't able to access it I noticed that my left leg uh I was able to get it Loose a little bit and so I asked him if he could push that boulder up off of me a little bit so what I did is I took that scraper tool that I was digging with and I cut my pants off and so I was able to free my left leg and to maneuver up the hill so that I was out of the line of fire if it did continue to keep rolling down so now I was in a situation where my right leg was fully pinned up to my knee you can kind of see I still have the scars and everything um and my left leg was sort of in like a butterfly crunch position and so that's where I remained for about seven maybe even eight hours as uh we waited to contact people and try to be rescued in such a remote area um there was a lot that happened though when I was under the boulder I had a lot of realizations and one of the first realizations was uh wow this is it I'm going to die and this is it there's no more left after this and I remember looking up at the sky and thinking man I shouldn't have spent so much time in my life stressing about money and if I could go back and do all these different things differently I would you know I would try to give back to people more and all this stuff was kind of going through my head thought about my family a lot and this is only like Split Second things but it feels like an eternity when you're thinking about this stuff and so we got on a call with the Ino County uh search and rescue well not actually it was the operator at the time it was part of the Ino County Sheriff sheriff's department and he was kind of guiding us through the whole thing and I asked him multiple times his name was Derek I recently did a Google search for my own name and what I found was pretty unsettling seeing my personal information out there for anyone grab it's just uncomfortable you know that's why I started using Aura the sponsor of today's video Aura not only shows me exactly which data Brokers are pedaling my info but also takes action 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the video I asked him Derek be honest with me now am I going to make it out of here alive or should I call my mom now and tell her that I'm not going to make it and he didn't want to give me a definite answer or anything like that cuz he wanted me to keep fighting up there uh basically my buddy said he's like I'm not letting you call your mom he's like you're going to make it out of here alive so I was wondering if I was if I was going to live or die based on the fact that I look down at my leg and there's about this big of an incision from where your femur basically connects to your pelvis and when I looked down in my leg I saw all this stuff that you're not supposed to see I think my brain blocks a lot of it out I've talked through with my friend a couple times and he's like dude I definitely saw your bone is that what is that what all the wraps are on yeah so this is the leg of the initial impact and um basically it was so bad for from the initial force of the boulder that they had to go in and cut a bunch of tissue out they had to repair my severed artery which was perhaps the greatest injury that I sustained from it um a lot of people when you mess up your artery especially in your leg it only takes you 7 minutes to bleed out and mine was crimped in such a way that it created a blood clot but it allowed me to stay alive and uh a lot of crazy stuff happened with the the hospital and everything like that that I went to basically they told me they're like we caught you just in time uh you're lucky to even have your leg let be let alone Be Alive I mean the rock very easily could have just crushed your head exactly and that's what was going to happen if my buddy didn't shove that that Pitchfork under there uh pickaxe sorry um so I guess I could just talk about the whole survival situation for the seven hours that I was trapped trapped and uh so there we waited for about 7 hours and like I said we were on this really remote Hill in the middle of nowhere if my buddy wasn't with me I wouldn't even be talking to you today um so I was trapped under there you you would have just been left there and no way to do anything you could for for my body to just rot up there were your hands free my hands were pushed up against the boulder just trying to keep it from coming down to my chest I I it was on so much on me that I couldn't really even breathe but but when he put that pick axe under there and he was able to push the boulder up I was able to free that left leg and kind of maneuver around the rock so that I was now on the opposite side of the rock so that if it kept tumbling downhill it wouldn't have fully crushed me um so when I was in that position with the leg pinned we were trying to contact people to try to get them to come and we're on the phone with the operator the whole time uh he's basically telling me to stay calm and try not to stress out cuz the more you stress out the more you'll pump blood through your leg and it would just create even bigger of a disaster but uh basically so I sat there for 7even hours like I said uh I became delusional at some points kind of sitting there and trying to make it through the situation uh like I said I kept asking the guy you know am I going to make it or is this such a crazy injury that this is just it and I kind of felt myself falling asleep a little bit and I had to remind myself to just stay awake and stay alive my buddy was there to support me the whole time too and I was getting so delirious that at one point I asked him for his hand so I could squeeze it and I ended up grabbing his hand and just biting it I was in so much pain and I was in such a deranged mind state that I I wasn't even really thinking clearly and uh I guess it's worth mentioning during the initial impact that we also spilled all the water that we brought up there so we had about2 lers of water for the both of us for that whole time we were up there and so like I said I went through different phases of being calm and absolutely freaking out and yelling at the top of my lungs and every time I realize it's not going to help so I'd go back to being Zen sometimes I'd close my eyes and think you know maybe I want to just go to sleep right now and just relax and have this all go away and then my intuition would kick in it's like if you go to sleep you're going to to be dead and so during this time uh they called in a search and rescue helicopter just to come locate us at that time I thought they were going to come down and just start dropping down and and start to rescue me but it was just to get our location so they came circled around us like five or six times and boom flew right back off to the mountains and left us there and uh so we were sitting there for a while right uh I basically saw the change of temperature dropped like 30 or 40 degrees and mind you I cut my pants off so I had no pants on this whole time and we were just trying to stuff a bunch of everything that we had rain jackets and stuff like that and the whole time I was keeping pressure on that leg too just because you know I looked inside my leg and saw my artery and all this crazy stuff and it became so cold and my legs were shaking so bad when I was trapped under the boulder that was causing a lot of pain so we actually made a fire right up on the hill next to the Boulder and some of the ashes started to roll under the boulder where my leg was and I started freaking out but my buddy did a good job of stoking the fire making sure to keep me warm and everything like that he was really doing anything that he could to help and the operator would actually call and he he'd ask him hey do you mind walking away from him for a second I need to talk to you and he'd basically tell him he's like you got to calm him down that's the only way he's going to survive and make it through this and I didn't know at the time every time that he would go walk to walk off I'd get all this anxiety and paranoia and all this stuff um so that was the 7 hours of waiting through that uh it was insane to to think that I had the thought if you can be in this sort of situation for let's just say three or four hours what makes it so that you couldn't be under there for maybe four or five hours the human mind is a strange thing and uh I still haven't fully figured it out but there's got to be some sort of whm Hoff trick or something to it where uh you can sort of block things out in your mind so that they don't bother you as much that's kind of what happened to me and so I was waiting up there for a while and I started to think you know I I haven't died yet and my leg's not bleeding out I know that things are really screwed up but I thought that I'd maybe have a fighting chance if I just stayed awake the whole time and just just really try to hang in there and uh this leg was all mashed up against The Rock like I said in like a butterfly position did you break any bones yeah I cracked my pelvis in two different spots right here on the left and then right here on the back but what was fortunate about the injury is when the boulder landed on me I was in a bunch of sand and so I think that uh it got rid of some of that impact had I been on Hard Rock it would have just smashed my leg completely surprised it didn't break my femur but I did mash it up into my pelvis in the socket there but the main injury that I sustained was that severed artery in the leg which and the initial impact they had to cut out a bunch of dead tissue in here and So eventually it was we watched the sunset all this stuff this happened around like 300 p.m. I think the search and rescue team got there at 900 p.m. which is extremely quick if you're in a survival situation where you need the search and rescue team to come get you it usually takes an average of like 8 to 12 hours so I was very fortunate uh and so I looked up on the hill and us we walked up the hill from the bottom but these guys found a way to come from the top you had cell service there so that's the crazy thing my buddy just got a new Galaxy s23 Ultra or whatever like the day after he got it and it had cell reception somehow he had one bar of service but if you go back down into digging in the hole you don't have any service it's only when you're just standing up and it was just that one spot too miraculously but I saw the guys on the hill and I saw them with their headlamps start walking down and I thought in my head these got to be the most badass [ __ ] I've ever seen in my life so they come down and I'm I'm like finally someone that can help uh and they just start getting right down to business you know they have an EMT he starts checking all my vitals and everything while the other guys I think it was a team of like four to six people the other guys start actually drilling holes into the Boulder and setting up these like rock climbing style hang hangers because even with the four or six of them they couldn't have just like push that thing off my leg without causing either more damage or the thing was just too heavy so they start taking out this rock drill and drilling holes into the Rock and everything like that and they actually created this pulley system where they were able to run a rope through those two rock climbing bolts and anchor it on a big boulder down below and I think it's called like a 7 to1 pulley system while they did that um this other badass Australian search and rescue guy he pulled out this thing called a high lift Jack which is used to flip over Jeeps that have gotten stranded while they're off-roading and he wedged that under the Boulder and started cranking it up and I started to finally feel some relief on that uh leg that was trapped and so um this had to be very strategically thought out because anything that they did wrong would have just caused that thing to come right back down on my leg can smash it even worse and so they they had to be really careful and it was in pitch black so they finally got the pulley thing and they got the high lift Jack and they started cranking it up while two guys held me under both of my arms and they did three giant poles and on the third pole I finally felt my leg finally be released and so I thought that when they finally got me out of there everything was just going to be okay but they pulled me out of there and I was on the ground and I couldn't really move much kind of just laying in a bunch of Sage Brush and around that time is when the rest of the search and rescue team showed up so now there was probably like 12 to 15 people there and usually when these guys are used to finding someone out in the mountains their heads are all bashed out they're unconscious they're dead most of the time the fact that I was still alive I think just became kind of a big party for everyone and so everyone was joking around and making jokes to me and everything like that they were giving me teeth warmed me up and I was so envious that they were having such a good time cuz it it was one of the worst times in my life laying there not knowing at the time that I had the broken pelvis and everything and the severed artery and whatnot um and so they're like oh you're going to be fine you'll go to the hospital whatever they asked me which hospital I wanted to go to CU I was halfway between Reno and Fresno and the guys were saying you should definitely go to Fresno it's one of the most premier hospitals like in all of California California for trauma and so they they basically contacted the the Naval Air Academy out of LaMore and because usually normal helicopters can't fly at night you have to have like some sort of special permit or something like that so they contacted these these guys and they told me they're like hey bud you're probably going to have to stay the night up here and I was ready to just stay up there and wait till the next day I was just was happy to be not trapped under the boulder anymore so I was getting prepared to stay the night everyone was just relaxing and having a good time you you weren't bleeding terribly so I wasn't bleeding terribly which was crazy because halfway towards like the rescue my buddy said he was like I think you're going to make it you're not bleeding at all which if I did start bleeding it's only about 7 minutes until you lose all your blood and your artery the boulder actually hit me in a way where your artery stems down here and then it branches off into two I got hit right up here so usually you could make it out if you if you get hit in one of those lower sections but I hit the main common femoral artery in my leg but like I said in such a way that it almost just crimped it and and sort of stopped the blood flow but it didn't completely sever it apart where I would just bleed out and that would have been that um so that was that they contacted the naval acad me I thought I was going to have to wait till the next day but they were like No actually they're going to be here in 2 hours and so I was just laying there I was actually laying on my side of the pelvis that I cracked cuz I didn't know my injuries at that point so um it got to the point where the helicopter started coming and it did the same thing it circled around like seven different times to try to get our location and this is in the pitch black too so these guys were doing the best that they possibly could um a bunch of the other guys went up on the hill and so I stayed down there with three or four of the team members and so they slip me a pair of sunglasses they said you're going to need these I said why it's like when that helicopter starts flying over us it's going to cause a lot of Roto wash which is going to kick up all the rocks and all the dust and sediment he's like you're going to be getting hit with shrapnel when they start to hover over us it's like all right and the whole time they were joking around with me like you're going to have a good story after this one and everything uh so the helicopter's flying around and they have to burn off a bunch of fuel also before they can just like hover right above you so we were all down there waiting and it finally put its Spotlight on us we were blinded I was just laying there with the sunglasses on at night and uh I could start to see some guy come down on a rope repelled out of the helicopter and it was uh Naval medic EMT and he basically started Tak my Vital Signs and checked in with the other EMT and he explained to me what was going to happen he's like you're you're going to come up there in the helicopter with me I'm going to um I'm going to connect you to me and then we're going to go straight up and it was probably like 30 or 40 ft up in the air I said okay at that point they had me in this inflatable litter which is basically like a big stretcher and they transferred me to this really rigid hard one and so he's like all right you ready and he's yelling in at me the whole time too cuzz the helicopter is right above us the whole time so he's just like shouting all this stuff at me and he Clips me to him and he's like all right we're going up and so we started ascending and I was on this thing let's just say this was my head the thing started going like this and for a second I thought I was going to slip out of there and just fall straight on the ground again but uh luckily that didn't happen I was grabbing onto the Rope for dear life uh I don't know if I should say this but I accidentally banged my head on the side of the helicopter when they were trying to shovel me in there which I thought in my head this will make a good story later um they finally got me into the helicopter and like I said all those guys were saying oh I think they were just messing with me they're like oh it's going to be fun you know you get to fly over the sieras and you get a free helicopter ride but it was the opposite of fun the thing was shaking my whole body around it's not the guy's fault cuz he was trying to do it in the dark but he tried to put the IV in five or six times and kept missing so I was just laying there just trying to stay calm to make it to the hospital uh and I'd close my eyes and lay back every once in a while and he kind of just tap on me to make sure I'm still still awake and still alive and we're communicating through the notes app on his iPhone he was letting me know how far we were asking me if I was okay and fi we finally got to the hospital uh I remember before they put me on the bed looking at one of the front Pilots that was there he kind of just threw up these and I'm like these guys are [ __ ] crazy man the fact that they do this for a living is absolutely nuts so they shoveled me onto the bed I got into the emergency room and people just started pulling on my arms and legs and everything they threw me in the uh CAT scan and what not uh it was brutal I didn't know what was happening at that time what my injuries were I was just happy to finally be in good hands at the hospital and so when they told me that I had the severed artery and the I wasn't surprised about the crack pelvis I was surprised about the artery and they said they needed to do emergency surgery on me so I basically called my mom who lives across the country in New York and I told her I was I was like hey I have to have emergency surgery I got crushed by a massive Boulder and pinned for over 7 hours and I told her I was like you don't have to fly out it's all good I'll take care of it but immediately she got a flight out to come see me uh awesome mom but what really hit me hit me the most probably was the fact that after all that and I was in the hospital one day this doctor came in and he asked me he's like hey do you remember me and I'd seen so many doctors at that point so I was like yeah of course I remember you but he could tell that I didn't so he's like I could tell you don't uh he's like hey man I'm the guy who saved your leg and at that moment I like just busted into tears I didn't even really how to know how to react to it emotionally because my legs are such a big part of my life it's pretty much everything that I do you know I'd go hiking every single day I I couldn't even believe that uh I couldn't even believe it honestly ly and down the line I found out people were telling me they were like you came to the right place you know we took care of you this is great trauma center and everything had you had gone to Reno or something maybe you wouldn't have been able to keep your leg So Not only was I lucky to have my friend up there to save my life from the initial impact of the boulder but I'm lucky to even have my leg and be able to still walk and get back to normal life eventually um I had 10 surgeries a lot of it was dealing with scraping that dead tissue out of my leg and I actually I had to get a skin graft cuz the wound was so bad um I still don't have a feeling in this knee or my right foot the one that was pinned so I think I have nerve damage but I'm waiting cuz nerves grow super slow so I'm waiting to see if they'll eventually grow back and also from the pelvic injury it had my whole leg messed up so I don't I don't have a feeling in in a lot of my legs to be honest your broken pelvis has has Rec has healed it's still recovering it didn't need Hardware or anything like that luckily so it just heals on its own so yeah it's and you're fairly young how old are you I just turned 27 last week 27 yes you're young and that's what they kept stressing as well they were like you're lucky you're young man cuz luckily you'll be able to survive and recover through all this what what kind of thoughts did you have like during the accident after now like what what kind of things have you thought about and what how has it changed the way you think so many things man honestly uh like I said that initial thing where I looked up at the sky and I realized maybe I would have spent my life differently and told those people that I actually do love and care about maybe I would have told them that a lot more often and if that was going to be it and if I was going to die up there and boom end of the story book close no more life I don't think that I would have been fulfilled with the things that I've done in this life and so that was a big feeling immediately right off the bat being so focused about money and things like that exactly exactly just always tripping about money and getting myself all worried getting my mind in all these Loops where at the end of the day it doesn't matter you should just be happy to be alive and to be breathing and experiencing life at that moment I kind of realized how life how precious life really was um so that was the initial thing right after the injury also I had a lot of respect for all those guys that rescued me you know the Inyo County search and rescue team and the lam more uh Naval Station it's crazy to say but I actually like started thinking maybe I would like to do something like that down the road and try to help people or save people's lives it's the most impactful thing that's ever happened to me in my life I couldn't even believe that these guys do this as their normal job and go out and save people when they're at their absolute bottom lowest there's some incredible it's incredible Medics out here insane and firefighters all that stuff the search and rescue is also non-for-profit too so these guys could have just been eating dinner hanging out with their wives when they got the call there's this guy that's trapped under the Boulder so that was another big thing and I kept thinking about that too I was like I'd like to give back in some sort of way I'm not sure what it is but saving people's lives is probably one of the most impactful things you can do um I also had a lot of respect for all the doctors and nurses who do this every day as their job sure I had never spent time in a hospital before you know uh it's crazy I'd have the same nurse like every day sometimes and I'm not the only patient they deal with they deal with a lot of screwed up stuff there you know uh so I have the most utmost respect for those people and people that can work well under pressure where it's like we got this guy in here his arteries all screwed up we're going to need you to go in graft his Vein from the other leg and put it in and do it all successfully under such short notice that was incredible to me as well so all of the rescue efforts and the nurses and doctors I still think about this that to this day I I can't believe it I'd always be like thanking them and stuff and they're like hey man it's just what we do you know but to me I just yeah like I said i' never been in a hospital environment really and so that was very impactful for me and another afterthought is that uh you know I always try to live life to the fullest and I always try to influence other people to do that too whether it be just like getting outside and going watching the sunset or something like that just try to live life in a meaningful way to you you know it's different for everybody I thought that maybe I should set up some challenges for myself and some goals to work forward to physically after all this had happened in terms of like I've always had it in the back of my head I've always wanted to attempt a marathon or to run a marathon and have kids one day and the fact that that thing didn't Crush My Family Jewels or anything like that you know I I definitely love to have kids one day and live a work a life that is full and worth living and so I guess that's it wakes you up a little bit doesn't it oh yeah shook me awake are you are you still hiking and rock climbing and all that I'm not able to really go hiking yet but has been so soon I can't wait to get back out there yeah yeah and it's a little scary too I I would do a lot of things that would sort of uh there'd be like kind of fear but then you get over the fear right uh I don't I have different thoughts about that now you know exploring all these like old abandoned minds and stuff it would always just kind of be something that I'd go do but I definitely think about it much much differently and things could go wrong you know I've I've seen a dead guy in the mountains before luckily was just some old guy that died from a heart attack and that was two years ago so I remember seeing that and it kind of set off an alarm in my head where I'm like this is a real like brutal place if you want to go play in the mountains you got to be ready to to get hurt and take that risk you know it's a dangerous place and when you're out there not that many people can come save you and if they do you're going to be sitting there for a while and you're going to be pretty lucky when they finally get there but but chipping away at the big at these rocks and and you you actually created this Rock This Rock to fall right unfortunately but and so that's another thing that I felt kind of stupid and guilty about for a long time and it was obviously an accident everything like that and I'd asked my friend who had been doing it for years and he was with me and saw all this happened and it's crazy because I have like this striking image of him in my head directly under it with his back right under it like digging under it and I imagine us both in the Impact Zone of that thing and I imagine it crushing us both and we're both up there all mangled and no way to call for help or anything and it just crushes us to death so I felt kind of stupid for a while it's dumb to go digging under a big boulder for sure and we had done it plenty of times you know usually the things don't move people go rock climbing they climb these big boulders they don't usually move and things probably been sitting there for 2 or 3 thousand years maybe even longer probably longer yeah probably longer yeah and so I guess it was just when he said that to me he's like he he's like I actually am struggling with this personally because I could imagine us both being in the Impact Zone getting crushed by that thing or I could have been the guy on the outside watching him get crushed and just either way it was a horrible situation I think it worked out in the best possible way for the severity of what happened luckily I didn't bleed out on the hill but that's another thing that I also struggle with is uh the whole thing just feels like a big dream to me and sometimes times I go about my day and I think maybe that thing did kill me and I'm just in some big dream or a big coma right now and I just need to wake up and whenever I say that to my close F friends and families they're like no that thing definitely hit you and you were crushed and I hate to tell you but you're still alive uh in a joking way obviously but it's something that I've been struggling with as well it's just like reality and trying to get used to all this and understand it you know I'll just be sitting on the couch relaxing and I'll actually feel that initial impact of that thing hitting me my groin and it's basically like a giant sumo wrestler laying on your leg that you want to like get it off of you but no one can move it uh yeah what would you say is the most important thing you've learned after going through this a lot of really important things always to come prepared for to stay the ton night even if you're just walking a mile or two out there cuz you don't know if you're going to come across somebody else that needs your help or if you're going to need to save your own life or what have you so it's always good to come prepared um I forget the saying it's something that piss poor planning uh creates bad situations or something like that uh it's like the seven PS but piss poor planning uh it equals piss poor performance basically so that was a big thing for me too cuz I I'm really in the backpack and I like going ultr light and everything like that but if if all you have is a tarp to stay of the night or to literally create a tourniquet around your leg or something you're going to be screwed and so that was a big wakeup call for me is to just come prepared and come correct when you're going out in those mountains cuz Anything could happen to you and if it's not you it could be somebody else um I also learned obviously to not dig under giant Boulders which won't be happening anymore and to stay out of the old abandoned Minds that all these earthquakes and stuff shift those rocks over time and it could be very dangerous you know out of all the things that I do rock climbing and doing all that stuff this was kind of just supposed to be a relaxing day where I just go look for rocks and it made me realize that even when you are at your most relaxed state uh things can take a deadly turn and basically Anything Could Happen out there well I'm glad you got away with your life thank you I I am too and I'm very happy to be here very thankful to my buddy Josh Nelson who was there with me because previously I had been up there for 3 days straight just alone up there and this easily could have happened to me I'd probably still be missing and I wouldn't even be talking to you right now you know I it's very morbid but I couldn't even reach into my pocket to get my phone it was literally crushed under the Boulder and yeah I probably would have just suffered a long slow death up there just getting crushed and yeah just like a decaying Corps they probably would have found me next spring and finally this is where he was the whole time you know it was that remote where it's just that far out there you you're not going to see anyone out there you're in the middle of nowhere in the middle of absolute nowhere you probably you may come across some Mountain lines or something like that but I guess that would help you to die quicker right all right Kevin thank you so much for sharing your story thank you Mark glad you glad you for having MEK thank you that was awesome thanks man that was great appreciate 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Keywords: soft white underbelly, swu

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Length: 39min 2sec (2342 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 20 2024