Stories of people surviving in extreme conditions

All these people have found themselves in the (seemingly) desperate situations, but nevertheless not submit to her fate and survived against all odds.

Julian Kёpke





Julian Kёpke was the only survivor of the 92 passengers in the crash Flight 508 airline LANSA. The plane was hit by lightning, causing a fire. The aircraft fell directly into the Peruvian jungle. After the crash of Julian remained strapped into his chair. She suffered a broken collarbone and numerous cuts. Nine days later it was found by local loggers. On the motives of stories Juliana Kёpke was filmed "Miracles still happen».

Nando Parrado



Once in the Andes crashed plane with a team of rugby players on board, the survivors had to fight for survival in inhuman conditions, even resorting to cannibalism. One of the survivors named Nando Parrado and his friend made a 65-mile crossing of the Andes and led rescuers to the scene. Thus Parrado helped survivors in the crash people did not perish in the mountains.

Steven Callahan



On a small boat sailed from Steven Callahan El Hierro in the Canary Islands towards the Caribbean. His boat sank right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and 76 days later he was drifting on an inflatable liferaft. In the end, for the raft brought to the island of Marie-Galante, where he was emaciated and covered with numerous ulcers due to sea water, the fishermen found.

John Colter



In 1808, the American was caught mauntinmen Blackfeet Indians. After Coulter stripped and ordered him to run naked, he realized that he participates in the "hunt" in the role of production. Coulter was able to escape and kill several of his pursuers. Running 300 kilometers to reach the nearest Colter fort white people.

Aron Ralston



Aron Ralston story was widely covered by the media in 2003. Then, the American climber while passing through the Blue John Canyon National Park in Utah was forced to cut off his own right arm to free himself from under the boulder to pinch it. Later, Aron wrote a book on which the film was made "127 Hours».

Deborah Kiley



In October 1982, Deborah and another four people while traveling by boat from Maine to Florida, got into a violent storm. After that all the passengers on the boat were forced to transfer to a spare inflatable boat, which began to gather around a pack of hungry sharks. As a result, two people from the team were eaten by predators, and Deborah and her friend found floating by the ship.

Passengers' Gremlin Speshiel »



May 13, 1945 US military plane, nicknamed "Gremlin Speshiel" crashed in the mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Three passengers in the plane crash survivors, trapped tribe of cannibals. Their luck tribe fed exclusively by their enemies. As a result, all three of them were rescued.

Team whaler "Essex»



After the huge whale and the sperm whale rammed the ship, the ship sprung a leak and sank, and twenty sailors remaining three whaleboat were forced to fight for its existence. Given the lack of provisions, it was decided to resort to cannibalism, and even use their own urine. The team had to split up to find help. After 90 days, the sailors were rescued by a British whaler «Indian».

Hugh Glass



American pioneer Hugh Glass participated in the fur company, heading up the Missouri River, where in a fight with a grizzly bear has been seriously injured. The wounds were so deep that the members of the expedition decided to leave Hugh and two volunteers who were to bury him when he will depart to the other world. But fearing Indian attack, the man fled, leaving the dying Hugh and taking all of his equipment and supplies. When Hugh regained consciousness, he crawled to the Missouri River, and then went on a raft in Fort Knox. On his way he met natives who helped bandage from the skin of a bear on his festering wounds. Biography Hugh Glass was the basis of the novel "Wild Lands" by Roger Zelazny.

Beck Weathers



The ascent, which was attended by Beck Weathers, was the most tragic in the history of conquest of Everest. During a heavy storm climber he spent 18 hours in the cold can not submit any signs of life. Man confirmed dead. However, he managed to get up and walk to the camp. His face was severely disfigured as a result of frostbite he lost both hands.

Hirro Onoda



During World War II, the Japanese officer Hirro Onoda fought against the Allied forces on the Philippine island of Lubango. After spending almost 30 years in the jungle, Hirro Onoda surrendered only Philippine authorities in 1974, as for many years he refused to believe that the war is over.

Steve Fossett



American balloonist alone committed circumnavigation flight across the Coral Sea in a balloon filled with helium. Suddenly a storm began. At an altitude of 9000 meters of powerful hail began to perforate the ball, and the passenger capsule began to fall straight into the ocean. Surprisingly, Steve Fossett has survived and was rescued 10 hours after the fall.

Slavamir Ravitch



When the Polish officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the Siberian gulag, he and six other prisoners organized the escape and went walk about 6,500 kilometers across the Siberian tundra, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, the Himalayas, and reached as far as India.

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