Survival in the Alps

American Liberty Republic is beginning a new series on survival. This article expands one from the latest edition, see link below.

While winter camping in the Trinity Alps, Ronnie and I came upon a Humboldt State University unconscious in a rock cave above 6,000 feet and 15 miles from the nearest dirt road. Read the article in American Liberty Republic.

We were camped about two hundred feet below where this picture is taken, down and to the left. We first checked his airway, he was breathing lightly and very shallow breaths. We gently placed him in a recovery position and put our sleeping bags, one under, the other on top, and zipped them up. We had a pad under the bag to trap the cold from the ground from coming up.

Ronnie began working on his hands to get some circulation and I began a fire. Eventually, he did come to. By the time it was done, we had given him most of our food in warm soups.

Our survival planning was for two, not three. After 12 hours of nursing him back to life, we all made it out. The picture above is in summer.