Top 5 real life survivors

in #philippines7 years ago (edited)

This is some real life survivors who survive a really harsh moments of their life let's take a look of the 5 real survivors

1 Julian Koepcke


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Is the sole survivor of the 99 passengers and crew from flight 503 that’s crashed and left here stranded alone in the Peruvian rainforest. Her plane was hit by lightning and exploded in the air, she was only 17 years old at that time, and the plane feel thousands of meters and she’s still trapped in her set, and she survive with only a broken collarbone and a gash on her right arm and right eye swollen shut.

Without training how to survive at this situation, but she fallow a stream and continued to follow that stream in the rainforest for nine days, and she finally found a canoe and a shelter, where she waited and finally was rescued by two loggers.

2 John Colter

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He was an American trapper and guide who had travel through to unknown regions of north America. 700 blackfeet Indians killed colter’s travel companion and he was captured by Blackfeet Indians in 1808. After stripping him naked and telling him to run Colter realized that he was the object of a “human hunt”. Colter manage to run several kilometers and managed to elude and even kill some of his pursuers with his own spear and took the pursuers blanket, he then hide in a beaver dam until he as able to escape,for 11 days he walk a total of 320 kilometers with only a blanket and roots for food.

3 Steven Callahan

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is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor noted for having survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft. On night of January 29th 1982, steven Callahan set sail alone in a small sailboat from the canary island, but on February 5 the ship sank in a storm, leaving him drift in the Atlantic on a one and a half meter inflatable rubber raft.

With only 3 bounds of food he survived for 76 days, after traveling about 3,000 kilometers in the ocean,
Callahan was so dehydrated that he wen mildly insane and he developed a split personality , after two and a half months drifting at the sea, he finally land in bahamas.

4 Ricky magee


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On January 24, 2006 he was cruising down an isolated road in the Australian Outback when his car was hijacked by three aboriginal men and drugged him and dumped his body in the middle of nowhere, Ricky was unaware and confused at that time and don’t know where he was.

He woke up to dingoes scratching at him, but Ricky manage to make a camp
Near a water dam and Ricky stay at that camp for 3 months and eat leeches, frogs, and grasshoppers to survive and luckily he was found just before death

5 Beck Weathers


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Is an American pathologist from Texas. He survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Documenting the deadliest season in the history of climbing Mt. Everest, the best seller Into Thin Air tells the story of Beck Weathers who miraculously survived losing consciousness in the death zone. After spending 18 hours in the subzero temperatures he regained his senses and stumbled back to camp. His face was badly disfigured and he lost both hands.

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