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and spit it back out.
Every second. Every hour.
Every minute there's something
there wanting you
to lose control of your senses.
And you know I'm thinking
about my family
and the position
I'd be leaving them in
and a couple of times
I almost thought
my wife was right there with me
because I could smell her perfume,
it was just as distinct as...
I know it was there.
and that was good
because that kind of
gave me some strength
to know that I was,
somebody was thinking about me.
Many people were thinking about him.
Word of the missing miners reached
Sheriff Bill Gardner.
As soon as I heard
I knew that this was the real thing.
I can't describe the feeling.
It... My heart sunk.
literally chills went up my spine
because I knew
what we were up against
This was a significant winter storm.
We had snow of at
least two inches an hour.
We knew that we had winds of
in excess of 50 miles an hour.
And we knew that the site
was totally isolated.
That the only way to the site
was either by air,
was literally avalanche alley.
Avalanche safety expert Chris George
was brought in to bomb the area,
clearing it of potential avalanches,
making it safe for the rescue team.
The road into the Bessie G up
the La Plata canyon was already
a serious hazard
I mean just driving that road.
Just because one avalanche runs
doesn't mean to say
that everything else is secured.
You know you'll have one or
You send another 40 people in there.
It's not secure.
It's something we have to do.
After almost 22 hours of digging,
to freedom
I could tell I was seeing
a little bit of light
and so I was about,
maybe two feet under
and of course
the adrenaline started pumping then
and I just started digging
and beating and jumping
and I can remember just breaking out
and just screaming
Thank God, you know, I just,
I made it.
I can't believe, I made it...
and then, to get out
in a freezing storm, snowing,
blowing, that's when I got cold.
Bitterly disappointed
with no rescue in sight,
Lester was forced to return
to his snow tunnel for warmth.
He attempted to settle
in for the night.
I tried to go to sleep
and wake up real quick
and think I was in bed
and had a bad dream.
But a very sad thing when
I did wake up,
I was still in the cave.
burying Lester for a second time.
To hear that crack and
that sliding sound
and I just assumed it
was gonna squash me like a bug
in my little hole there.
Luckily it just slid over the top.
Morning came I knew I'm gonna get
started as early as I can.
I'm gonna dig my out again.
So it was about six.
Course I only had a couple
three feet of snow to go through.
and I got out. I just started...
the only direction
I could move was down.
Finally in mid morning
of the accident site.
And we flew by the east portal
looking for tracks.
There was no indication
it was just
I had absolutely no idea
and was at the foot of
any circumstances.
helicopter flying
approximately the same elevation
that I was, but they were looking,
I could look in and see them
and they were looking up
at the avalanche,
of course, they didn't expect me,
where I was and then,
yeah it made me mad,
I was, I was mad.
They just flew past me.
I felt prop wash they were so close.
This must have been
a half hour later.
what I thought was thunder
and then I realized
they were dropping bombs
on the slope to secure the slope
for the rescuers.
So I knew I had to get out of there.
I finally got up
and got behind a tree
and it wasn't 15 minutes,
I could hear the roar.
It was louder than any
thunder you've ever heard.
If the first two didn't get him,
wouldn't
Lester was almost to Junction Creek
when he heard the sound
of the helicopter overhead.
This time they saw him.
where he was treated
for severe frostbite.
They wanted to cut off several
fingers but Lester held on.
personal strength,
his fingers remain.
I can't express the mixture
of joy and wonder
I mean veteran mountaineers
were looking at each other.
People were hugging each other.
And we were going
we can't believe this is true.
I have read hundreds of reports
of avalanches.
I've been teaching snow safety
for 35 years.
I've been in mountains, you know
for 40 odd years.
To me it's one of the greatest
survival stories I've ever heard of.
It's good for me because it gave me
a new outlook and I,
I'm a lot tougher than I was
and I appreciate things
a lot more than I did.
Like a nice warm house
and a loving family.
I'm rich, I didn't need to extract
all the gold out
of this mine to get rich.
I know now what rich is
and I'm rich.
Experience teaches
when we pay attention.
Wisdom arrives after we learn.
Winter will always come.
Snow will always fall.
All things obey the law of gravity.
In the mountains,
ignorance and arrogance can place us
in harm's way.
We have a choice.
But if we remain unaware
and the mountains continue
to lure us,
the white death will strike again...
and again.
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