An American mountaineer and scientist survived a terrible fall into a 70-foot deep crevasse while he climbed a glacier in the Himalayas, since he managed to record everything in a video he uploaded to popular social network Facebook to ask for help.
"Please call Global Resue. John broken arms, ribs, internal bleeding. Fell 70 ft crevasse. Climbed out. Himlung camp 2. Please hurry," was the worrying message that John All, a University of Kentucky professor wrote on May 22 on the Facebook page of the American Climber Science Program, according to the website of the ABC.
Seriously injured, the climber and scientist had to wait 17 hours until a helicopter arrived to rescue him.
"The helicopter has not arrived, so I'm going to try to survive this night. I'm going to crawl to the tent. Unless I bleed out, I will survive..." he later wrote on his Facebook profile, where he also published the video of his terrible fall.
All, who was carrying out research on the pollution of the glaciers on Mount Himlung in central Nepal, told the press that it took him six hours to leave the hole in which he had fallen and another three hours dragging himself to his tent, after which he was able to send the help messages.
The 44-year-old climber from Bowling Green, Kentucky, saved his life thanks to his friends and other colleague climbers managed to see All's messages on Facebook and told authorities, who organized an air rescue to get the scientist out.
At the time of the accident, All was completely alone, and if it weren´t for the messages he sent to the social network, he would have most likely died; however, the fact that he was alone when he fell into the crevasse could have saved his life.
"If somebody else had been with me, we both would have died. There's no question. Because I would have fallen in the crevasse, they would have fallen on top of me, and we would have killed each other," he said, reported CNN.
Video via CNN
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