Survival Shows

There are 54 million acres of park land with large glaciers and huge mountain peaks in Alaska - more than enough room to get lost and require survival training.

James / Jim Sweeny and Dave nyman were climbing the elevator shaft in Alaska.  The elevator shaft is a large granite rock covered wtih ice so climbing it is slow going and extremely dangerous.  Part of the way up Jim Sweey falls and goes unconscious forcing Dave to lower him back down to the bottom.  After 5 hours of hard work they both reach the base of the rock face.  Once they are off the rock completely Dave realizes the full magnitutude of their situation and that it is up to him to  make it possible for both of them to survive.

Jim and Dave get hit by an avalanche the first night yet they survive! After moving their Dave thinks they are now in a safe place for the night yet AGAIN they are hit by an avalanche and survive! The odds of surviving one avalanche are insane but surviving two in two nights is amazing!

I’m not going to giveaway the whole episode of I shouldn’t be alive so I will use bullets to briefly touch on more topics from this show.

• Plane attempting a rescue crashes.
• Plane crash causes multiple bulging disks in the back of the passenger.
• First avalanche destroys Dave and Jim’s tent.
• Dave pulls Jim 17 hours through the snow.
• Both men fall into a deep cravass.
• Both men climb 70* snowy and icely ledge so that they are on the surface again.
• The men use a technique which involves punching your first into the snow to gain grip and continue to climb.
• Both men slide down the mountain to speed up their survival.
• Weather is to bad for a rescue attempt, the men have to survive another night in sub-zero temp.
• When they get to the bottom of the mountain Dave is ner delirious with exhaustion from pulling Jim down the mountain.
• Jim spends 10 days in the hospital but survives.
• Dave was awarded the carnagy medal.